Chicken John ("Chicken" John Rinaldi) Quotes

High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.

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• Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • College

• Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Beginning
  • Fate
  • Retail

• When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • You
  • Retail

• I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up!

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Women
  • Walk
  • Stores

• You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Knows

• I bring the staple of my culture.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Culture
  • Staples

• I used to go to Saks, I would go to Bergdorf, I would go to Barneys, I would go to thrift stores in SoHo.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Stores
  • SoHo
  • I Used

• Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • Space
  • Memorial
  • Retail

• Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Great
  • Government
  • Service

• Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

  

  Virgil Thomson
  • May
  • Deception
  • Stores

• Stores can be indifferent to something new.

  

  Greg Ginn Black Flag
  • Indifferent
  • Stores

• To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Record
  • Shock
  • Stores

• Here's a two step formula for handling stress. Step number one: Don't sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it's all small stuff.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Remember
  • Stress
  • Numbers

• Certainly our records could be found in most of the mom and pop indie stores, but we still found there were a lot of major stores that weren't on the tip of knowing what was happening and weren't stocking our records as readily as they were stocking, you know, Guns 'n' Roses or Billy Joel or whatever the hell. That certainly changed, and it changed rapidly after Nirvana's rise, that's for sure.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Changed
  • Found
  • Records

• The young man must store up, the old man must use.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Young
  • Use
  • Stores

• The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Technology
  • Location
  • Retail

• Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

  

  John Kendrick Bangs
  • Loves
  • Stores
  • Hostess

• I love shopping. It's one of my favorite things to do with friends! My favorite stores are H&M, J.Crew, Gap, and Nordstrom.

  

  Amy Rodriguez
  • Friends
  • Shopping
  • Stores

• Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

  

  Michael Symon
  • Increase
  • Farmers
  • Markets

• Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Good
  • Long
  • Children

• exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Effort
  • Animal
  • Rain

• ..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Working
  • Meaning
  • Ant

• High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.

  

  Chicken John
  • Stores
  • Formulas
  • Retail