Retailers Quotes:

I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.

- Shahrukh Khan

topic: Retailers, Sells

Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of Wall Street banks; and Wall Street bankers are not far behind in giving plans for the tremendous improvement of trade union policies. Wholesalers have schemes for improving the retailer; the retailer knows just what is wrong in the conduct of wholesale business-and we might go through a long list.... Yet for some reason the classes that ought to be helped keep on stubbornly clinging to their own method of running their affairs.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Running, Country, Wall, Retailers, Wholesale

The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers.

- Kelly Sue DeConnick

source: Interview with Christopher ZF, thestake.org. January 30, 2014.

topic: Book, Trying, Comic, Retailers

Charging everyone the same thing and treating everyone the same way, as retailers do today, is 'Six Sigma' thinking which is great for producing widgets on a production line, but it makes no sense in a world where customers are inherently different.

- Peter Fader

topic: Smart, Thinking, Retail, Retailers

Retailers are treating everyone the same way who walks in their stores and this doesn't make sense in the world we live in where all customers are not equal.

- Peter Fader

topic: Smart, World, Way, Retailers

Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of us to the top of our peer group. The BID period has also seen Kingston rise to 12th place according to Experian, and 13th place according to the Javelin Venuescore, in their respective retail super leagues of UK town and city centres. I am confident the platform that our BID provides will allow us to continue to maintain Kingston as the place that people love to shop and visit.

- David Barford

topic: Taken, Years, Cities, Javelin, Peer Group

In just 200 tweets we can assess and identify 52 different personality traits of a customer. We ran an analysis over 500,000 people and we really nailed this. Think of providing this powerful insight to a retailer. We can see what they value, not just what they are buying. We have found a 40-45% increase in sales when you recommend upsales based on values instead of past buying behavior.

- Sandy Carter

topic: Powerful, Past, Thinking, Over 50, Personality Traits

It's a great opportunity to lower costs without sacrificing quality. If a retailer is not leveraging this capability, they are certainly missing something.

- Marc Chandler

topic: Sacrifice, Opportunity, Missing, Retailers, Missing Something

My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.

- Melissa Bean

topic: Work, Team, Unique, Retailers

It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public.

- Howard Schultz

source: "Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May 1, 1998.

topic: Ironic, Retail, Benefits, Retailers

Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition

- Marc Andreessen

topic: Crush, Real, Competition, Logistics, Retailers

Gillen and McKelvie shared their upcoming The Wicked + The Divine with me, and its amazing. Please tell your retailer this week to order!

- Mark Waid

topic: Order, Wicked, Week, Retailers

The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Rights, Names, Impact, Retailers

Halloween this year falls on a Friday. That should be helpful for retailers because the party carries into the weekend.

- Richard Hastings

topic: Friday, Halloween, Fall, Retailers

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.

- Evan Davis

topic: Christmas, Friday, Wall, Christmas Shopping, Bad Hair Day

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.

- Jeff Bezos

topic: Real, Keys, Cost, Retailers

I want to make the IKEA of clothes for fat girls and boys. Cheap, affordable, basic - but ethically made. Basics, you know? Like Spanx - I'm still confused as to why retailers haven't ripped them off yet and done it well. It's because they don't understand the basics behind it. I love Spanx. I'm wearing 'em right now!

- Beth Ditto

topic: Girl, Confused, Boys, Spanx, Ikea

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.

- Philip Green

topic: Business, Commitment, Home, Retailers

You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.

- Stacy London

source: Interview with John-John Williams IV, articles.baltimoresun.com. October 15, 2010.

topic: Needs, Looks, Fabulous, Retailers

It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in.

- Joan Bauer

topic: New Year, Valentine, Unrequited Love, Retailers, Social Pressure

We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas.

- Milton Friedman

topic: Oil, Law, Two, Retailers, Two Cents

The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.

- Stephen King

topic: Business, Lying, Mean, Retailers

Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

topic: Educational, Friendly, Done, Retailers, Big Companies

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

- David Riesman

topic: Communication, Media, Gossip, Mass Media, Peer Group

We know how to punish retailers and manufacturers that don't provide quality and value. But we're lousy at fighting effectively for what we really need - reliable insurance policies; affordable health care; safe, healthy food.

- Shoshana Zuboff

topic: Fighting, Healthy, Quality, Insurance Policy, Affordable Health Care

When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.

- Gerry Harvey

topic: Successful, People, The End Of The Day, Inspiring Customer Service, Retailers

Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

- Jennifer Stone

topic: Real, Television, Tvs, Retailers, Salesperson

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

- William Congreve

source: John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Bonduca”

topic: Art, Phrases, Remnants, Retailers

The scientific community, public health officials, and others have raised serious doubt about the steps taken to ensure the safety and efficacy of the herbal dietary supplements taken daily by millions of Americans, as part of a broader investigation, NYAG is reviewing the sufficiency of the measures manufacturers and retailers are taking to independently assess the validity of their representations and advertising in connection with the sale of herbal supplements.

- Eric Schneiderman

topic: Taken, Health, Safety, Retailers

In changing times, we should all lend our support to the independent retailers. Without independent retailers, many of the biggest names in music would still be undiscovered. They break new artists and movements. We all know the industry is changing, but we can't forget where we came from.

- Gorilla Zoe

topic: Independent, Artist, Names, Where We Came, Retailers

Right now, we continue to see demand at very strong levels. It's tough to find a Wii now. If we hit 100 stores in the area, we would find Wiis in only 20 percent of them today. That tremendous strength we had in December really wiped the pipeline clean. Our pipeline, the retailer pipeline. And so, with that kind of demand, it doesn't suggest the need for any pricing actions.

- Cammie Dunaway

source: "Nintendo isn’t worried about Apple, and you won’t see Mario on Facebook". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. March 2, 2010.

topic: Strong, Needs, Wii, Pricing, Retailers

Retailers should not be filling their minds with all the things that are wrong, with how the economy is going, or with trying to get someplace in the business world. They should enjoy being in this moment and in this day and serving the people who come in.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: People, Mind, Trying, Retailers

As a retailer, I would ask the customer, "What is it you want in life?" Whatever answer they give, I would help them to say the correct answer, or the most effective answer, for anyone - feeling good.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Giving, Feel Good, Feelings, Retailers

My relationship with brick-and-mortar shopping is, in general, unpleasant. I can't remember a time in my life when I could go to a physical store and find a variety of things in my size that excited me and fit my personal style. As a plus-size shopper at a typical mall, you're limited to at most five stores out of maybe 50 clothing retailers. That leaves us with very few options and, for people on a tight budget, pretty much no chance of comparison shopping. You take what you can get.

- Lindy West

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Bricks And Mortar, Shopping, People, Mortar, Plus Size

When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market differentiation, so we had to reorient. In one brainstorming session, we visited and observed great retailers, then asked ourselves, 'If Starbucks did not exist, what type of coffee experience would we create?

- Howard Schultz

topic: Meaningful, Coffee, Organization, Differentiation, Relevance

My role as the chair of the fashion department at Parsons put me face to face with all the big designers, retailers, and editors. Since I was moving in these new circles regularly, I realized I needed to do something about my own personal style. It was really Diane von Furstenberg who gave me the nudge.

- Tim Gunn

source: "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 2012.

topic: Fashion, Moving, Editors, Retailers

If the Health Impact Fund were to be instituted, a single company would be in charge of a medical product all the way from its conception to the health improvements realized by actual patients. The company would be paid for health impact, and it would have to arrange the entire pipeline in between - all the steps of invention, of clinical testing, of getting marketing approval in many different countries, of wholesalers and retailers and prescriptions and so on - in a holistically optimal way.

- Thomas Pogge

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Country, Impact, Marketing, Optimal, Clinicals

I asked one retailer, I said, "Let me ask you, are you going to raise prices next year?" They looked at me and said, "Not only are we not going to raise prices, we're going to have to lower prices, increase the quality of the goods, and turn the inventory quicker."

- Ken Moelis

topic: Years, Quality, Inventory, Retailers

I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're feeling it. If you're a jewelry retailer, you're feeling it. I know some of these businesses because we're in them. Yeah, it's being felt, but it will be felt big time more if we don't do something about it, what's going on.

- Warren Buffett

source: "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

topic: Feelings, Today, Furniture, Retailers

Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy

- John Warren Kindt

topic: Gambling, Creating, Computer, Retailers

Credit cards have been extremely profitable to banks. They're profitable not from the fees they collect from the retailers that use the credit cards, that pays the bills, but the real profits come from the interest payments and the charges to users that are unexpected.

- Richard Thaler

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Retailers

The 'Main Street' retailers ... see customers come to the store to locate items ... only to leave and order the items over the Internet just to escape the sales tax.

- John McCain

source: "States argue for taxing Internet transactions" by Ian Christopher McCaleb, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2001.

topic: Order, Internet, Main Street, Sales Tax, Items

The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

- Bill Gates

topic: Retailers

It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

- Nate Berkus

topic: Jobs, Antiques, Designer, Decorators, Retailers

I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Body, Want, Way, Retailers

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

high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Fashion, Littles, Mark, High Fashion, Retailers

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

- Michael Enzi

topic: Used, Taxes, Discouraging, Sales Tax, Retailers

I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.

- Alessandra Ambrosio

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Class, Leader, Design, Cherokee, Retailers

Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.

- Ronald Lauder

topic: Winning, Battle, Brands, Retailers