David Lichtenstein Quotes

Show me a mall, and I'm happy.

The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.

Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else's record from being sold. It's about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records.

I dedicate my store to my birthplace. People over there look very good and have got purchasing power, too, and I think since there are no fashion shops in Ghaziabad, they would want to visit my boutique all the more. And I don't play cricket for all 12 months. So when I'm not playing, I can spend my time looking after my business and develop it.

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.

I'm a label that wants to sell. I believe in clothes.

I try to shop in every state that I go to.

Shopping stresses me out.

I understand the concept of advertising. It makes sense. Companies want to reach customers with information about their products. It's a completely legitimate and valuable notion.

I've never had the experience of 10 years at Unilever and five years at Coca Cola. But I'm not the marketing director who only wants 25 per cent a year on the revenues. In the old days, you sold something, and you would be happy. At Ajax, we thought we needed more from that than selling a seat and making five grand.

Challenges keep evolving as you move into different stages. When you are at a prototype stage, it's about getting that sustenance money. Then, talent becomes an issue; your early hires are difficult to get when you aren't too big. Later, it's about handling growth; then, you have competition.

Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products face competition from the formidable inertia powering the status quo.

I don't have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects.

Growing companies need commercial space, and their employees need to live nearby.

My least favorite aspect of shopping is shopping.

We don't want to be as big as Oasis!

We are huge fans of T.J. Maxx at our house.

As a consumer and a mom, I've always been interested in local products.

When you're in 45 markets, you take it on the chin here and there.

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.

Brand preferences and consumption levels in emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil tend to be more fluid. Consumer research is therefore critical to aid marketers trying to cement brand preferences early on as these economies develop.

The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.

You're in the game of life to fight. If you're in business, and you're not aggressively building, you shouldn't be in.

I think London is one of the best cities to shop in.

So it's rare if I go to a city and don't shop. I know different store systems in every city so I just like doing business everywhere I go.