Merchandising Quotes:

I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!

- John Candy

source: "Fictional character: Barf". "Spaceballs", www.imdb.com. 1987.

topic: Dog, Men, Half, Merchandising

Looks do count. Deliver visually stunning merchandising. Engage at the point of sale. Help consumers shop with their eyes.

- Michael J. Silverstein

topic: Eye, Looks, Helping, Merchandising

As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.

- Dave Sim

topic: Merchandising

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

- Christopher Lasch

topic: Heart, Upgrading, Taste, Merchandising

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

- Russell Lynes

topic: Art, Book, Car, Merchandising

The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.

- Simon R. Green

topic: Hero, Kind, Good Hero, Merchandising

Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.

- Mel Brooks

source: "Spaceballs". www.imdb.com. 1987.

topic: Money, Real, Yogurt, Merchandising

If you have a business website, make it stickier; redo the merchandising often and try new things until you hit the right homepage... then try and beat that. The most important audience drivers on the Internet are paid search and key word optimization. Concentrate on those. They are very inexpensive compared to banner advertising.

- Lynda Resnick

source: "How Your Business Can Survive the Economic Collapse" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2008.

topic: Keys, Important, Trying, Merchandising, Redos

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

- A. J. Liebling

topic: Knowledge, Survival, Anomalies, Merchandising, Chewing

I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.

- Andy Grove

topic: Thinking, Technology, Knowing, Merchandising, Personalized

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery . . .

- J. G. Ballard

source: "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.

topic: Technology, Fiction, World, Merchandising

I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name.

- Diana Ross

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Fashion, Moving, School, Merchandising

What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens

- Libba Bray

topic: Queens, Believe, Opportunity, Merchandising, Beauty Queen

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

- Helen Reddy

topic: Exercise, Labels, Levels, Merchandising

Be a gold-medal multitasker. You should be able to discuss the new Ludacris video while correcting the merchandising spreadsheets, picking the right shade of snakeskin for next season's mini-purses and catching the dog at the same time!

- Kimora Lee Simmons

topic: Dog, Gold, Shade, Merchandising

Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed of animal which doesn't ordinarily fly, the prayers (requests for gifts) which are annually mailed to him and which so baffle the Post Office, the specially-garbed priests in all the department stories. And don't gods reflect their creators' society? The Greeks had a huntress goddess, and gods of agriculture and war and love. What else would we have but a god of giving, of merchandising, and of consumption?

- Donald E. Westlake

topic: Prayer, War, Thinking, Huntress, Merchandising

A lot of people can figure out the social media aspect of it, or the merchandising aspect, or whatever and get enough momentum to start a career. To sustain it, you have to keep writing and you have to keep creating.

- Tyler Hilton

source: Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

topic: Writing, Media, Careers, Merchandising

I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.

- Charles Gwathmey

topic: Fashion, Color, Discipline, Merchandising, Materiality

The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

- E. B. White

topic: Media, Roles, News, Merchandising, Peddler

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: War, Grandchildren, Merchandising, Political Speeches

Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

- Grant Morrison

topic: Book, Character, Lasts, Merchandising, Comic Book Characters

I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

- Dakota Fanning

topic: Mom, Fashion, College, Merchandising

I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.

- Majel Barrett

topic: Running, Children, Type, Merchandising, Techno

I wasn't so interested in merchandising through CD or whatever form. I wasn't really so aggressive about promoting my own work. I had my recordings from the past, but I never thought someone was interested in releasing it.

- Yoshi Wada

topic: Past, Cds, Form, Merchandising

In my world [of fashion] there's more things that kind of affect it. There's the retailers we do business with, our own stores, my merchandising team... Everybody has opinions, and so you definitely have to filter through a lot.

- Paul Weller

source: Source: www.clashmusic.com

topic: Merchandising, Retailers

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Fashion, Art, Self, Merchandising, Horseback

Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.

- Mark Parker

topic: Order, Design, Innovation, Merchandising, Inquisitive

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

- Graham Joyce

topic: Fashion, Mtv, Games, Mainstream Culture, Merchandising