Joseph Abboud Quotes

We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.

I worked at a school supply store as a cashier.

I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.

Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.

If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people."

My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.

I didn't want to be a retailer. I hated to wait on people.

I loved the fact that if you put goods on the floor, you could watch them sell.

I did retail. I worked at TJ Maxx before. I did fast food at Shake Shack.

Retail is my game. I spend every waking hour thinking about it. I started in the industry at the age of 18 after trying various other things that were mind-numbingly boring to me.

I've done retail before.

What I've come to find out is it doesn't matter if you're selling a $10,000 gown or toilet paper: The everyday sort of humdrum of customer service and retail is the same.

I always loved retail. I love the ideas behind it. I think small-business retail is one of the areas where capitalism works so wonderfully well.

I got two stores, two streetwear stores, at home. Have to tend to those. Play Cloths. Have to tend to that business.

I worked at Big 5 Sporting Goods, selling shoes and stuff like that, for a couple of summers.

I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist.

I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

I'm not from a retail background, but I am a shopper.

Working in a store and being a shop assistant, if you don't know what to do and you like fashion, I think it's a great way of getting into the business because you do windows, cleaning, and everything. That was my school for two years, working in a shop, and that's how I met people in magazines and designers.

I think by my father owning a store, I was definitely aware of the commercial aspect of selling clothes. His shop was a place I enjoyed spending time in as a boy, so I learned things almost by osmosis at times, by literally just being around all the action and not really despite myself.

This is my hobby: growing stores, adding stores. It's fun.

I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.