Jimmy O. Yang Quotes

When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.

I've done retail before.

I actually did use to sell shoes.

I worked at a school supply store as a cashier.

I had a job for a year, working in a high-quality whiskey-and-wine shop.

Having some retail experience is key. It really is where the battle is won or lost.

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

I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.

I remember my first job, when I was working in a retail store down there, growing up in Laurel, Mississippi. I was making, like, $2.15 an hour. And I was taught how to responsibly handle those customer interactions.

I worked at a Books-a-Million in Louisville for several years.

My mom and I had a kids' clothing store called Smooch for six years, and I did all the buying before I even had kids.

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'

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

I was a salesman just out of college, traveling all over American roads in the cause of selling handbags to stores that would in turn sell them to American women, not unlike my father had done.

I may be the only shark who hasn't been on QVC, but I have learned a lot from those folks about what it takes to get a product on store shelves.

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

I spent my time, growing up, essentially between two things: technology and retail. I was fascinated by selling and loved the idea of making a profit, but I also spent a lot of time on technology.

I worked in my parents' decorating store from six. My mum would get me in every Saturday polishing the paint and straightening the wallpaper for 50p.

My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.

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

My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.

I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.