How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

I went to a general store but they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific.

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It’s hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

I 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.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

It 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.

People 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.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

I 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!

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.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

Sometimes, 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.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

I 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.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

I met this wonderful girl at Macy’s. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

I 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.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Don’t judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn’t do my laundry.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Oh, 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.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.

You 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.

I 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.

You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

The 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.

I went to a general store. They wouldn’t let me buy anything specifically.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

The only time to buy these is on a day with no ‚y‘ in it.

I 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.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

People concerned about inflation today tend to buy big houses and nice cars.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

I 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.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

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.

Strip malls are history.