1950s Quote by Rick Harrison

I'm a real pawn-shopper.

— Jemaine Clement

Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

In the old days it was people robbed the banks.Times have changed these days the banks rob the people

— David Hutchinson

I think a lot of times when people talk about merchants, it's almost a nostalgic look back at the time where the world moved…

— Edward Lampert

I got the Pawnbroker of the Year award. They said I did more for the pawn business in one year than their media team,…

— Rick Harrison

“The wild pursuit of status and wealth has destroyed our souls and our economy. Families live in sprawling mansions financed with mortgages they can…

— Chris Hedges

“Because the lenders sold many—though not all—of the loans they made to other investors, in the form of mortgage bonds, the industry was also…

— Michael Lewis

If you go to most pawn shops in Las Vegas, they will tell you exactly what they will pay for, say, an iPod. But…

— Rick Harrison

I was a woman and younger. I started spending a lot of time in the mall doing a lot of qualitative research and really…

— Kirsten Green

In 1991, if someone came in with a $1 million budget for a boutique, I would have fainted. Nobody spent even half that. But…

— Peter Marino

I think the No. 1 universal thing is that everybody's got that silly thing in their closet that they think could be worth money.…

— Corey Harrison

People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault…

— Harold Robbins