#store

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.' ↗

— John Thorn

#business #came #ceded #control #frightened

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#everything #except #first #form #grow

I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store. ↗

— Aida Turturro

#be happy #creating #going #happy #hardware

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall. ↗

— Henry Vaughan

#day #denies #earth #great #great day

I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#elvis #elvis presley #gets #himself #his

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#department stores #die #go #i #just

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#enters #forget #king #me #store

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros. ↗

— Jack Welch

#engines #get #getting #grocery #grocery store

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#barrels #changing #claim #depreciation #existing

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#because #bookstore #buy #crazy #everything