It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
Karl LagerfeldI look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ‚cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.
Kevin GatesWhat consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.
Jeff BezosI bought some batteries, but they weren’t included.
Steven WrightPeople don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
Bill GatesI own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.
Vivienne WestwoodSo convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Benjamin FranklinWho bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
Woody AllenThe wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI went to a general store. They wouldn’t let me buy anything specifically.
Steven WrightI went to a general store but they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific.
Steven WrightIt’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.
Bill GatesI will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
Erma BombeckI got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.
Steven WrightOh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.
Bill GatesI’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.
Jeff BezosI just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.
Ariana GrandeHow come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
Erma BombeckSometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.
Marilyn MonroeStrip malls are history.
Jeff BezosI go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.
Taylor SwiftWhat we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
Jeff BezosI buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Warren BuffettI cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.
Taylor SwiftPeople seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob DylanI barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
Paul AusterThe god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William JamesIf you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.
Noam ChomskyThe bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann HessePeople shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
Erma BombeckAmazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
Jeff BezosI want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I’m deciding what to wear, I don’t run out of options. I love shopping!
Virat KohliWhen you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.
Narendra ModiI bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.
Steven WrightYou may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
Bill GatesOh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.
Anthony BourdainI met this wonderful girl at Macy’s. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.
Steven WrightIt was always a plan that we were going to have a retail side with what were doing musically, like an Apple store or Nike Town. I wanted something where you can come get everything – ‚Marathon‘ or ‚All Money‘ or ‚Crenshaw‘ – and make it like an experience. Especially with what Crenshaw and Slauson meant to my story.
Nipsey HussleI don’t think people are going to switch over to bikes because it’s good for them or because it’s politically correct. They’re going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.
David ByrneIf you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Clint EastwoodI don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.
Vivienne WestwoodThe only time to buy these is on a day with no ‚y‘ in it.
Warren BuffettBuy clothes the size you want to wear.
Karl LagerfeldA woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph AddisonYoung people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
Pope FrancisToday, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
Bill GatesI have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that – you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.
Margaret AtwoodThe Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.
Bill GatesYou don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
Jeff BezosI do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.
Mark ZuckerbergNobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.
Alexander Graham BellMaking music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.
RihannaDon’t judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn’t do my laundry.
Michelle ObamaMicrosoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.
Bill Gates