Selling Shoes Quotes

#1. Boy," said the old man at last, "in five years, how would you like a job selling shoes in this emporium?"
"Gosh, thanks, Mr. Sanderson, but I don't know what I'm going to be yet."
"Anything you want to be son," said the old man, "you'll be. No one will ever stop you.

Ray Bradbury

#2. Say this one time with me: "Would you like that in a pump or a loafer?" ... Good. Now memorize it, because starting tomorrow, the only job that you're going to be able to get is selling SHOES!

George Huang

#3. If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine ... look into that second, less painful career.

Richard Jeni

#4. Hopefully 10 years from now people won't even realize we started out selling shoes. They will just think about Zappos as a place to get the best customer service.

Tony Hsieh

#5. Learn to sell. In business you're always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you're selling. Don't sell your product. Solve their problems.

Mark Cuban

#6. Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

Denzel Washington

#7. Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.

Owen Marshall

#8. Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.

Joe Green

#9. Bicycles, bullock carts, and buses that belched thick, black smoke moved in anarchic streams with the auto rickshaws and cars along the streets. Many of the shops - normally selling everything from groceries to stainless steel cookware to shoes - stood silent behind shutters and honeycomb grilles.

Ken Doyle

#10. Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?

Joe Bastianich

#11. Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition.

Sophia Amoruso

#12. It doesn't matter how many pairs of shoes you have, how many cars you have, etc ... It's all utterly meaningless and yet we continue to pursue this. Why? Because they've learned they can stimulate our primal desires through selling us products.

Russell Brand

#13. Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#14. God offered the greatest and most wonderful gift freely, while we were still sinners. It is a gift for any and every one, no matter how broken, how far, or how dark. He didn't require us to change before we came, but offered a way out while we were at our worst.

Sarah Holman

#15. We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

Konosuke Matsushita