Brad Stone Quotes

If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.

I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.

Shopping in the future can become an experience where conventional retailers can complement the success of online retailing. Government needs to work in partnership with the sector to help make this a reality.

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

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

Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.

I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There will be too many of all of them. The strongest ones, the ones who offer the best customer experience, will survive.

I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.

Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.

The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality.

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago--she outgrows her prophecies faster than she can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

I think any city that does the Olympics takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.

I'd like to put together a think tank of people - economists, futurists, city planners, a few department-store people - to discuss reinventing the department store.

What's changed in New York, and what made us really change our thinking about New York, is that the different neighborhoods are becoming more important as shopping destinations than they used to be.

Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.

Online is not contributing in the same way as the high street in terms of business rates and to the local community.

I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities - from anything but cities themselves.

I got in before SoHo was SoHo. It was just Little Italy when I was in there. It's still off the touristy track. It's just away from the Saturday action, the crowds and everything. It's too expensive. It's insane. You've got to be a billionaire to live on Manhattan now.

I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.