Retail quotes of the day

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.... Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
Andy Warhol

"It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it."
Gerard Patrick Roeling

"You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place."
David Ogilvy

"If you don't believe in your product, or if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work."
Jay Levinson

"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress."
Herbert Hoover

"The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have."
Joyce Brothers

"Never spend your money before you have it."
Thomas Jefferson

"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait."
Ellen Metcalf

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
Herman Cain

"After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world."
Pam Shaw

"Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognise... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished."
Claude Levi-Strauss

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
George Bernard Shaw

"Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them."
Theodor Adorno

"I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy."
F.W. Woolworth (1852-1919).

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."
Niccolo Machiavelli

"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
Benjamin Franklin

"The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition."
Dwight Whitney Morrow

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
Karl Marx

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