We shoppers, you bloggers.
If money talks, you mumblers.
You try it on, then take it off,
Then post a pic on your tumblrs. — Pusha T
The best system I've ever seen for intellectual distribution is the direct selling business-also known as one-to-one marketing, network marketing, referral marketing or relationship marketing. — Paul Zane Pilzer
Currently, e-commerce is the segment of our internet business which is growing the fastest and it will remain that way for the foreseeable future. — Koos Bekker
Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing. — Abu Bakr
As with so many sectors of the economy, technology is transforming the retail banking sector. — Jerome Powell
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. — Warren Buffett
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers. — Plautus
Sellout... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT. — Bill Withers
Every transaction, irrespective of how low the price is, proves one fact; that there is a buyer on the other side. Somebody is buying. — Naved Abdali
Short Retail Quotes
Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time. — Mary Cheney
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants. — William Congreve
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. — Publilius Syrus
I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today. — Sam Walton
We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness. — Peter Thiel
Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store. — Marilyn vos Savant
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. — Brock Chisholm
Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space. — Daniel Libeskind
The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL. — Bill Gates
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law. — George Bernard Shaw
Working In Retail Quotes
The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer. — J. Paul Getty
I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist. — Sara Blakely
My mom used to work for Coach and Louis Vuitton, in retail. So, I've always been around it. I've always had that connection. Always. — Travis Scott
Social media can work to a CEO's advantage. Someone with a great product in a small town in the middle of nowhere can compete in the world marketplace. In 1962, Sam Walton changed the face of retailing with Wal-Mart. As we speak, Amazon is again changing the face of retail with on-line buying. — Bill Capodagli
I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live! — Jayma Mays
I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders. — Alessandra Ambrosio
I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank. — Shahrukh Khan
His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself. — Ann Aguirre
My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since. — Rachel Roy
Retail Business Quotes
Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself. — Max Keiser
We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there. — Andrea Jung
I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well. — Kenneth Lay
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. — William James
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application -- why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. — Howard Nemerov
I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out. — Anita Roddick
The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology. — Jeff Bezos
Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them. — Gerry Harvey
I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself. — David Lee Roth
Starting your own business and thinking about how you can grow something and fulfill both expectations and needs of your retailers and still stay exciting for the runway, you sort of become this left brain-right brain person pretty quickly. — Joseph Altuzarra
Retail Sales Quotes
There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work. — Jeffrey Gitomer
With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that. — Jo Ann Emerson
I've been thinking about that a lot too lately, These Days. I think it's becasue I grew up in retail, in costumer service. I grew up having to talk to everybody, having to sell to everybody so now that I can just sell me, it's fun. It's not even a sale, it's really just me being me. — Ab-Soul
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation. — Robert Foster Bennett
I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it. — Michael Enzi
In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do. — Tate Taylor
I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that not a single retail location in America where there's a PlayStation 3 on the shelf for sale. They've all been sold in a matter of minutes. — Jack Tretton
Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student. — Patricia Heaton
I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than food! There's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than there's been in the entire history of humanity! It's grotesque! — William Gibson
The 'Main Street' retailers ... see customers come to the store to locate items ... only to leave and order the items over the Internet just to escape the sales tax. — John McCain
Retention Quotes
The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations. — Roy H. Williams
Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves — Steve Jobs
We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems. — John M. McHugh
It would be great if people returned to areas of the country that need talented people with good economic prospects. Our country would really benefit if those who went to elite universities, who started businesses, who started nonprofits, weren't just doing so on the coasts. — James David Vance
Know what your customers want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet. — Kevin Stirtz
It's almost always easier to sell to an existing customer base than to find a new one. — Lewis Howes
You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day. — Jeffrey Gitomer
Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me. — Flannery O'Connor
Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction, you must improve. — Horst Schulze
Revenue tests take several months to reveal their true impact and long-term ramifications on user growth and retention. — Cliff Lerner
Department Stores Quotes
In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. — Julia Child
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. — Shirley Temple Black
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. — Shirley Temple
Wonderful, I like cars, too, I like all the great things you can buy in a department store. But when you have to buy them in order to stay unaware, comatose, then the price you pay is too high. — Gudrun Ensslin
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours. — Erich Fromm
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. — Fran Lebowitz
If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little. — Michael Jackson
The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household. — William Christopher Handy
I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business. — Helen Reddy
Sal and I were in the mall just shopping, and we're walking through this retail store and little old lady goes 'NO! You're not gonna get at me.' We were just shopping. She was looking for cameras, she was like 'I know who you are, you crazies!' and she walked away from us. — Joe Gatto
Look at the flack a few unfunded volunteers take for even commenting about the ethical considerations, the multi-billion dollar incentive mis-alignment. the people you are commenting on are hugely funded, awash with retail investor cash and looking to perpetuate the game into the next coin. — Adam Back
Pretty sure only trained hedge fund professionals backed by institutional investors and UHNWs are supposed to commit theft/financial pillage by artificially distorting the market. I don't know why retail investors think they have the right or expertise to manipulate price action. — Eric Weinstein
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. — Thomas Carlyle
Consumers could be in for an even sweeter deal, either getting discounts from retailers for using the PIN debit cards or being rewarded by card network by winning money back for using the signature debit cards. — David Robertson
If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver. — William Cobbett
In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope. — Hedi Slimane
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader. — Jason Epstein
I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous. — Hedi Slimane
a great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. Take Wal-Mart, our largest private employer and premiere exploiter of the working class. ... You think it's a coincidence that this union-busting low-wage retail empire happens to have generated a $65 billion family fortune? — Barbara Ehrenreich
The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods. — Lindsey Graham
Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry. — David Riesman
I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street — Sam Walton
I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the bricks are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important. — Carlos Slim
Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location. — Jeff Bezos
Successful brands get into the mind slowly. A blurb in a magazine. A mention in a newspaper. A comment from a friend. A display in a retail store. After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever. — Al Ries
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. — John F. Kennedy
By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or aesthetic value. You look to get the wholesale price and you hope for retail spikes periodically when you get two or three people in the audience that want the same thing. — Paul Brown
I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work. — Philip Green
My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out. — Thomas Goodwin
I wouldn't call it a retail store. It's a place where culture and commerce intersect. It's more like the Silk Road-a sense of exploration mixed with the exchange of things and ideas. — Ron Pompei
In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view. — James Cash Penney
Not too far away from now - in the next 6-7 years - 75 million Americans will be retail buyers of healthcare. And they'll come to the marketplace with their own money and either a subsidy from their employer or a subsidy from their government. And it doesn't much matter - they'll be spending their money. — Mark T Bertolini
An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail. — Thomas Brooks
I asked one retailer, I said, "Let me ask you, are you going to raise prices next year?" They looked at me and said, "Not only are we not going to raise prices, we're going to have to lower prices, increase the quality of the goods, and turn the inventory quicker." — Ken Moelis
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