Quotes About The Retail Business

#1. I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

Philip Green

#2. 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

#3. Trying to move the volume of products we're talking about from place to place to get it ultimately into the customer's hands, to price these items, to market these items, I think the retail business is incredibly complex. But if you get it right, it's a beautiful thing.

Edward Lampert

#4. The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

Howard Schultz

#5. A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

Lee Iacocca

#6. 10/20/30 Rule in my book can level the playing field for a retail forex trader to trade alongside big banks and hedge funds.

Ramesh Selvarajoo

#7. 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

#8. People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.

Peter Hargreaves

#9. 90% of new business fail in the first three months of launching, due to lack of proper planning, wrong selection of niche/products and marketing platform.

K. Raveendran

#10. The median startup is a business that's capitalized with about $25,000. The financing of that business comes from the entrepreneur's savings. The business is a retail or personal service business, a hair salon or a clothing store, that kind of thing.

Scott Shane

#11. My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.

Eric Stonestreet

#12. 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

#13. Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

Vince Cable

#14. You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.

John Hartford

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

David Lloyd George

#18. The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.

Charles Dunstone

#19. 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

#20. High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.

Chicken John

#21. My basic strategy is to stick to my core business, and to my area of expertise. My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate and tourism development. Together they create synergy.

Henry Sy

#22. Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.

Tony Farmer

#23. SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST born unlucky - so unlucky in fact that they do just the opposite of what they should at exactly the wrong time. Suckers? Maybe. But in the business of investing, those people have a name: retail investors.

Simon Constable

#24. 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