Ted Waitt Quotes

It's easy to just go out and buy a $200 piece of clothing. The real challenge is finding it for half that.

Bring your kids along next time you go to the grocery store and ask them to help find the price per unit for the general grocery items. By comparing brands and looking for the best prices, kids will get in the habit of looking for deals and understand the value of the dollar.

There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.

The creams I use are not expensive. Nivea is just as good. Why waste a fortune?

Everybody loves a deal on a restaurant or skydiving or laser-hair removal.

When we cut the price for bananas by 1 ruble, we sell 100 tons a day more... There are people who live within their budget.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.

I'll do anything for free stuff.

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

Groupon has some interesting assets.

I tend to tell my readers to go for the cheapest ingredients every time, unless they're unbearable. If so, you only need to have them once and the next week switch up.

No matter how much money you have, it's just smart to use coupons. It's like free money in your pocket.

Customers don't care about rivalries between corporations, they care about getting the best value for their money.

I'm good at finding good deals!

Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.

Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop.

It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

Everything I do in life is framed through the view of a businessman. That's my instinct. If I go into a pharmacy to buy shaving cream, then I'm going to look for the best deal on shaving cream.