Duty Quote by Horace Mann

“To a greater extent than before, the retailer has to use skill and judgement to allocate scarce shelfspace.”

— Greg Thain

“It's the usual utopian vision. This time they were saying it'll reduce waste. If stores know what their customers want, then they don't overproduce,…

— Dave Eggers

Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest…

— James Madison

Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.

— Ibn Khaldun

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their…

— Maria Nikiforova

“The Holy Grail of Retailing,” as follows: • To know exactly what each shopper wants, or may buy, as they come through the front…

— Herb Sorensen

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

— Thomas Jefferson

“We cannot buy what we need for an ideal life in stores, so we have become habitual shoppers who come up short again and…

— Dave Bruno

If you want to get things you can't buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.

— Dr. Seuss

“This manifesto is a distillation of critical action points that will lead to double-digit sales and profit increases, and which have actually led some…

— Herb Sorensen

“People open shops in order to sell things, they hope to become busy so that they will have to enlarge the shop, then to…

— Alice Munro

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

— Sarah Josepha Hale