Top 1200 Retail Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate, and tourism development. Together they create synergy.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

Let there be no mistake: John W. Nordstrom was no retail expert. But throughout his life, he did what he had to do - hopefully we all have that in us.

I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.

Yes, I love the movie business. In fact, there's no business like show business.

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"

I have a feeling that there is a gap in the food retail market - a niche below some of the current budget operators such as Aldi and Lidl.

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.

Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.

I always say, when I play the first few notes and people scream... if you're tired of that, you should try retail. What else are you looking for?

My goal is to continue to build Marley Coffee distribution and add our own stand-alone retail stores.

I knew that if I could create a quality product and find the proper retail outlets, it would be a great company.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

In the hyper-exploitative sector of retail and hospitality, workers are made to feel worthless - undeserving of a proper wage and genuine security.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

No wonder they call shopping 'retail therapy,' as any girl will tell you how it just takes away all the stress.

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

I was lucky enough to find my passion early - in retail - and I have done well but, most importantly, loved doing it.

I realized I was a gamer when I didn't sleep three consecutive nights playing EverQuest, which was a popular MMORPG sold at retail.

You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

In the restaurant business, if you break even, you're lucky. It's a really hard business, it's a survival business.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

My protagonists have problems that a new pair of shoes won't solve. Retail therapy is not a bad thing, but it's not going to fix their lives.

I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

We were presented with limited opportunities to get distribution when we went to retail, so we made the hard decision to build the brand and win the community first.

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.

The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.

My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

Yes, some banks will only float good companies. But others could not give two hoots if you have a business, a business plan or any business experience.

Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.

Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task

In disciplines as disparate as baseball, financial services, trucking and retail, people are realizing the power of data to help make better decisions.

With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

The worst thing about the music business is the business part of it. Business has nothing whatever to do with writing, playing and performing.

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

If any PC manufacturer has made money selling PCs retail in the last 10 years, I'd like to know who they are.

Amazon has done something for all of retail, which is resetting the customer expectations about how quickly and easily you can get things.

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

My first job was at a local bakery, and when I graduated from high school, I was promoted from retail sales to cake decorator.

If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.

Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.

I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues.

But what we know, we who are either observers of a business we once were in and loved, or are people within it now, our business as a whole, when it is not obsessed with the business of business, is eaten up with a form of cultural conservatism which is truly amazing. Indeed, more often than not it is eaten up with pure reactionary-ism.

At HSN, entertainment has quickly become a core part of who we are and is a key differentiator from others in the retail landscape.

Retail is undergoing a massive change, and there is a chance for new leaders to emerge and older brands to reinvent themselves.

I believe that business shouldn't be done in the public's eye anyway. And I believe that business shouldn't be handled in the magazines anyway. Business should be handled in the room amongst the people you're doing business with.

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and God's. Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our business. When I think, "You need to get a job, I want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself," I am in your business. When I'm worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God's business. If I am mentally in your business or in God's business, the effect is separation.