Shopping Quotes

Everyone lives by selling something.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You're biggest expense is the money you don't make.

Pante

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Simone de Beauvoir

Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

Arthur Miller

A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Anatole France

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

Will Rogers

Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls.

Hilaire Belloc

Sell cheap and tell the truth.

Rose Blumkin

About 70% of customers

Lee J. Colan, Passionate Perform

A sale is not something you pursue, it's what happens to you while you are immersed in serving your customer.

Source Unknown

Sell the sizzle, not the steak.

Source Unknown

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

Marshall McLuhan

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

Marshall McLuhan

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

Tony Alesandra

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Karl Marx

In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Oscar Wilde

Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept.

Charles Dickens

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

Plutarch