Retail Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.

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

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

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

You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

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

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.