Nordstrom Quotes:

Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors.

- Robert Spector

source: Robert Spector, Patrick D. McCarthy (2012). “The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence: The Handbook For Becoming the "Nordstrom" of Your Industry”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Believe, Courtesy, Nordstrom, Vendors, Great Service

A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom.

- Robert Spector

source: Robert Spector, Patrick D. McCarthy (2012). “The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence: The Handbook For Becoming the "Nordstrom" of Your Industry”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Strong, Attitude, Personality, Strong Work Ethic, Can Do Attitude

I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.

- JoAnn Ross

topic: Ideas, Work Out, Favorite Places, Nordstrom

The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.

- Ursula Nordstrom

source: Ursula Nordstrom, Leonard S. Marcus (1998). “Dear genius: the letters of Ursula Nordstrom”, Harpercollins

topic: Book, Thinking, Quiet, Nordstrom

I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that I probably would've either been teaching piano or maybe gotten to play at Nordstrom's department store.

- Condoleezza Rice

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Teaching, Piano, Play, Department Stores, Nordstrom

When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's like escapees from the Nordstrom cosmetics counter.

- Kathleen Hanna

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Stress, Cat, Video, Surrogates, De Stress

I love shopping. It's one of my favorite things to do with friends! My favorite stores are H&M, J.Crew, Gap, and Nordstrom.

- Amy Rodriguez

topic: Shopping, Gaps, Favorites Things, Nordstrom

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.

- Sara Blakely

topic: Years, Way, Firsts, Spanx, Nordstrom

It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It’s just like Animal Planet, only we’ve got Cover Girl and Victoria’s Secret instead of colored feathers and fancy markings, and the violence occurs at the Nordstrom’s Half-Yearly Sale.

- Deb Caletti

source: Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

topic: Girl, Animal, Secret, Nordstrom, Victoria's Secret

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

- Jim Harrison

topic: Government, Years, People, Nordstrom, Bad Government

As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy's or Nordstrom's and see their face staring back at them - I wouldn't believe them.

- Nicki Minaj

topic: Girl, Queens, Growing Up, Black Girl, Nordstrom