Quotes About Retailing

#1. The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.

Richard Mottram

#2. Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#3. Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger critical mass.

John Simon

#4. I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.

Sam Walton

#5. 90 percent of all Gillette shavers are bought by women for the men in their lives

Martin Lindstrom

#6. You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

Kimon Nicolaides

#7. Learning the way of grace is about truth. It's reconciling the truth, of both our own infinite value and of others' infinite value - despite our depths of
brokenness.

James Prescott

#8. Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.

Mark Spitz

#9. Greatness, Master, is generally only considered enough if you are the greatest.

Jessica O'Toole

#10. We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

Alan Watts

#11. 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

#12. Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

Enid Nemy

#13. I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

Vera Farmiga

#14. 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.

Andrea Jung

#15. We have a company, Geometric Software, which is into engineering services software. We have a company called Nature's Basket, which is into gourmet retailing. Both are specialized companies.

Adi Godrej

#16. Sex doesn't sell anything other than itself

Martin Lindstrom

#17. Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

George Santayana

#18. People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with several hundred thousand other like-minded types is worrying.

Peter York

#19. Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.

Lee Scott

#20. 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

#21. Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

George Bernard Shaw

#22. I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

Sam Walton