Sara Davies Quotes

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.

When I was a kid, I worked as a clerk at my parent's motel. From when I was eight or nine, I rented rooms, helped with laundry, folding tons of towels. And then I also worked at my dad's gas station more as a young adult and as an adult.

My parents own a restaurant in downtown Oakland - Garden House - and I started working there at 8. I'd work the cash register while people looked at me skeptically. Free child labor!

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

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.

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.

My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.

My father owned some Laundromats, and when I was 10, he had me in there making change and being an attendant. He taught me that on weekends, you had to get up and go to work. That has been a big help in acting.

My grandfather was a pawnbroker, and when I was in first or second grade, my parents opened their own store. I probably learned to count by putting pawn tickets in numerical order in the back room of the shop.

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

I've always wanted to buy a bookstore. You know, sell some of those muffins and a little coffee. I don't care if we make any money. I don't want to lose a lot of money, but we could visit with people and get books.

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

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

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

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

I actually did use to sell shoes.

I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.

My father was a small business owner. When I was growing up, he ran a one-hour photo store - back when there were one-hour photo stores.

Ninety percent of the people who come to my stores have no idea I don't work with leather.

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

I've never worked behind a cash register before.

I worked at a school supply store as a cashier.