Carrie Donovan Quotes

Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.

With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products.

You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have been struggling with keeping up with demand.

Has anyone actually asked the customer if they want to have something available directly after the show? You hear that three bags are going to be released tomorrow in five shops, so you produce 15 bags. How many customers are you going to satisfy with that? Fifteen!

If no one consumes these products, people will stop roducing them. They will not build it if you didn't come.

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.

You need to be ahead of the game just enough so that you can have what people want in the shops when they want it.

Products are valued higher than services.

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

We're creating new supply for the world, which is key. If we didn't get more tonnes into the system, your next motorcar is going to cost more because the aluminum cost is going to be higher.

But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

As a customer, I would see pieces that I loved and then find out they weren't being made because no store had ordered them.

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.

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.

When a product is market driven, it should be able to pay for all its raw materials at market prices.

The novelty business is astounding. We can't keep up with it.