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Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air conditioning and have good shows.

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As goods become more standardized - and mass production has that effect, standardizing product - the distinguishing factor between one store and another is going to be how skillful stores are in satisfying customers and making it a pleasant experience instead of a hostile experience.

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Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

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I thought: 'It would be great to create a series of clothes that looked like that tree.' Clothes that gave you the green of the leaf and the warm brown of the underside of that leaf and the vanilla colored blossom.

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Other than things like toothpaste, I don't buy anything that isn't sold to me.

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I suspect that most retailers are so busy buying goods, taking care of markdowns, and so on that they have too little time to give thought to creativity.

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Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates.

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If you demand the best, sometimes you get it.

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Maybe it's my age that makes me very conscious of loose threads, but I don't think that's an earmark of a fine product. And whenever I have a deep-seated feeling like that, I convey it to the person who made it. Sometimes they curse me, and sometimes they thank me.

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I'm lucky that I was in retailing during the time that I call the golden age of retailing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: April 20th, 1905

Died: January 22nd, 2002

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