#store

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#adjust #competitive #competitors #customers #discipline

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. ↗

— George Carlin

#bookstore #defeat #i #me #purpose

Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space. ↗

— Forrest Church

#book-lover #books #bookstore #faith #hope

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#back #books #bookstore #bookstores #chain

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#bookstore #just #lawyers #money #were

I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it. ↗

— Jay Kay

#bmw #car #first #get #got

I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

#beach #bookstore #cafe #car #day

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. ↗

— Julia Child

#come #department #department stores #equipment #indiscriminately

The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back. ↗

— Christo

#beaches #before #brought #condition #did

Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together. ↗

— Wesley Clark

#act #actions #america #collectively #europe