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The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
J. Paul Getty

Authors on Retail Quotes: Howard Schultz Garth Brooks Andrea Jung Sam Walton Aaron Levie Jamie Dimon Ian McLeod Alden Ehrenreich Martin Lindstrom Philip Green James Howard Kunstler Tim Ferriss David Remnick John Mellencamp George Bernard Shaw Vito Fossella Ab-Soul Mark Twain Jack Smith H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Wayne Dyer Mary Cheney Peter Fader Greg Graffin Tony Farmer Charles Dunstone John Paul DeJoria Kelly Link Sara Blakely Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Jeff Bezos Jack Tretton William Gibson
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We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.
Andrea Jung

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Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
Mary Cheney

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

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I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
Philip Green

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The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.
Charles Dunstone

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A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
Mahatma Gandhi

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The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.
Lindsey Graham

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a great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. Take Wal-Mart, our largest private employer and premiere exploiter of the working class. ... You think it's a coincidence that this union-busting low-wage retail empire happens to have generated a $65 billion family fortune?
Barbara Ehrenreich

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With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.
Jo Ann Emerson

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I've been thinking about that a lot too lately, These Days. I think it's becasue I grew up in retail, in costumer service. I grew up having to talk to everybody, having to sell to everybody so now that I can just sell me, it's fun. It's not even a sale, it's really just me being me.
Ab-Soul

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I wouldn't call it a retail store. It's a place where culture and commerce intersect. It's more like the Silk Road-a sense of exploration mixed with the exchange of things and ideas.
Ron Pompei

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The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.
Jeff Bezos

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An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.
Thomas Brooks

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Not too far away from now - in the next 6-7 years - 75 million Americans will be retail buyers of healthcare. And they'll come to the marketplace with their own money and either a subsidy from their employer or a subsidy from their government. And it doesn't much matter - they'll be spending their money.
Mark T Bertolini

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The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
John F. Kennedy

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We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.
Peter Thiel

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Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.
Marilyn vos Savant

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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
Sam Walton

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would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.
Jack Smith

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You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
Brock Chisholm

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Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music. In some ways, that retail experience is as important as the music.
John Mellencamp

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Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.
Daniel Libeskind

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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
George Bernard Shaw

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I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.
Sara Blakely

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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.
Greg Graffin

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No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.
Andrea Jung

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Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.
Mike Huckabee

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A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
Lee Iacocca

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My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
Rachel Roy

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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
Tate Taylor

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In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. ... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS.
James Traficant

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The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
Howard Schultz

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In many places, the zoning prohibits the mixing of retail and residential. This stupidity has been accompanied by stupidities in municipal policy, such as disallowing accessory apartments - under the theory that renters are incapable of behaving decently.
James Howard Kunstler

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The retail industry has its own headache: it loses $16 billion a year to customers who buy clothes, wear them with the tags tucked in, and return these secondhand clothes for a full refund.
Dan Ariely

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Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.
Tony Farmer

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No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.
Mark Twain

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I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that not a single retail location in America where there's a PlayStation 3 on the shelf for sale. They've all been sold in a matter of minutes.
Jack Tretton

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Curiosity is the greatest source of ideas, retail revolutions, and insights.
Michael J. Silverstein

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The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will encounter any compelling messages.
Martin Lindstrom

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High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.
Chicken John

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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

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McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.
Eric Schlosser

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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.
Camille Paglia

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A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it.
William Gibson

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"Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.
Peter Drucker

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I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.
Tory Burch

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The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.
Kelly Link

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Were the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but Im going to be the one guy who kept his word.
John Paul DeJoria