Retail quotes
75 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"I'm in the retail business, not the circus business."
"A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him."
"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."
"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."
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"The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology."
"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."
"You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale."
"would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate."
"No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted."
"Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law."
"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."
"No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale."
"Curiosity is the greatest source of ideas, retail revolutions, and insights."
""Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing."
"If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people.""
"To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution."
"Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the side!"
