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Quotes About Merchandise

I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.
~ Steve Aoki
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
~ Les Brown
Everyone lives by selling something.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
~ Jessica Lange
Think about how much fashion profits from black culture and how underrepresented we are in the industry. If you insist on using black celebrities to peddle your merchandise and add a cool factor to your front row, it is indecent to not care about the plights of that person's community.
~ Kerby Jean-Raymond
There is huge money to be made - by candidates, by book publishers, by merchandise peddlers - from small-dollar conservative consumers who are as enraged by their own party's establishment as they are the Obama White House.
~ Steve Kornacki
Conservative merchandise tends to aim at a point from a place of humor and exuberance, from Trumpy Bear to the 'Make American Great Again' hats to my own bestselling blank book 'Reasons To Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide.'
~ Michael J. Knowles
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
~ Alfred Marshall
But I called, as we came near, to one who stood beside the water's edge, asking him what men did in Astahahn and what their merchandise was, and with whom they traded. He said, Here we have fettered and manacled Time, who would otherwise slay the gods. I asked him what gods they worshipped in that city, and he said, All those gods whom Time has not yet slain. (from Idle Days on the River Yann)
~ Lord Dunsany
It was a common practice in all descriptions of freighting, not peculiar to oil; in merchandise, grain, everything.
~ Ron Chernow
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.
~ Charles Edwards
The Package is the Product, onomatopoeticized
~ Allen Ginsberg
El estancamiento y la falta de perspectivas del arte moderno corresponden al estancamiento y a la falta de perspectivas de la sociedad de la mercancía que ha agotado todos sus recursos.
~ Anselm Jappe
I take a lot of pride in growing my brand and connecting with young fans and with the reach that Lids has, with 1,200-plus locations and the amount of merchandise they sell gives me a large opportunity to reach out to fans and keep connecting and trying to grow the game of baseball. Lids has been a partner in that pursuit for a long time.
~ Trevor Bauer
I really want to start pushing my merchandise. I want to design something clothing-wise one day. I think that would be really sick.
~ Tate McRae
I never in my wildest dreams thought that I'd have merchandise selling on a web site. It's just amazing to me.
~ Frank Vincent
Groceries, TV shows, and shoes are a few categories Amazon has been willing to hang onto for years.
~ Adam Lashinsky
Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.
~ G-Eazy
Some people end up becoming just a conservator of the one thing they did and making sure they get their merch out and all that.
~ John Cameron Mitchell
The problem with when you look at eBay is that you can put a pair of Jordans next to a frying pan. It's an altogether different experience compared to having some editorial around it and well-curated experience.
~ Troy Carter
Retailers use various strategies, policies, and procedures in timing their markdowns of Christmas merchandise, adds Dale Lewison of the University of Akron. "Some retailers start taking small and early markdowns before Thanksgiving, while others wait until after the weekend following Thanksgiving —the biggest shopping weekend of the year. Still other retailers wait longer to mark down merchandise.
~ Roger Highfield
The wonderful thing about having your songs on the radio is that people are going to go out to your concerts and buy your merchandise and that sort of thing, and it feels good to get that level of name recognition.
~ Roger McGuinn
My favorite buyer program is one called Eat What You Cook. Once a quarter, every buyer has to go out to a different store and act as manager for a couple of days in the department he or she buys merchandise for. I guarantee you that after they've eaten what they cooked enough times, these buyers don't load up too many Moon Pies to send to Wisconsin, or beach towels for Hiawatha, Kansas.
~ Sam Walton
Cashing in on the hoopla, the souvenir trade cranked out an unprecedented pile of Lafayette-themed merch.
~ Sarah Vowell