Stephanie Ruhle Quotes

Most things that people want already exist, and with Amazon or eBay, there is always someone who is willing to undercut your price.

The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.

Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically.

We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.

I think that they are hung up on, you know, that people cheat and we don't enforce the laws, and I think that's correct. But I don't think people want to just say, "We're not going to trade with anybody."

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.

We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.

A lot of the things I did - it's not going to sound anything but egotistical - if I'm lucky and I did the right thing, they will be at Zara way before I can get them in the store, and I don't like that.

Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.

Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United States took in international goods worth $1.73 trillion, or eighty times the value of all U.S. trade in 1960.

Surging global trade creates new security risks that will require new global safeguards.

A lot of people believe, and I do at times, that some of our trade agreements are lopsided, and we've got to look at them. But that doesn't mean that we're going to put a tariff on everything.

There is going to be globalization, but we need to do it under terms - under rules that work as rules work for our domestic economy on the dynamic of capitalism. You need to do trade in the same way.

In the market, the fittest are those most able to serve the consumers; in government, the fittest are those most adept at wielding coercion and/or those most adroit at making demagogic appeals to the voting public.

The U.S. economy is the global economic driver. And within the U.S. economy, the U.S. consumer is the global driver.

If you think about a business where uncertainty is an anathema, it's around consumer spending, and it's around retail.

Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.

All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.

The big problem retailers are facing is the world is moving to mobile.

Free Trade puts consumers at the centre of economic activity. It lowers the cost of imports, which gives people the opportunity to buy more with the same amount of money: domestic producers have to compete with the lowest global costs or invest in new business.

Online payment will continue to play an ever-growing and significant role in the development of e-commerce as well as the stimulation of consumer demand.