Virginia Postrel Quotes

Chains do more than bargain down prices from suppliers or divide fixed costs across a lot of units. They rapidly spread economic discovery - the scarce and costly knowledge of what retail concepts and operational innovations actually work.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1960

Topics

WorkKnowledgeDiscoveryDownChains

Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

Melina Kanakaredes

MarriageAchievementHappyCareer

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

John Murray

HopeCouragePeopleHellGive

In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

LifeYouToo MuchKindPossibleTry

I grew up thinking I was going to change the world, but not because I was treated like a special snowflake. It's a silly label. People are starving. We need to feed them. That's the end of the conversation.

Rupi Kaur

ChangeChange The WorldPeopleWorld

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

Mike D

SittingWorkingOurFrontLaptops

No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.

Lucas Black

LifePathPerspectiveLoseCareer

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LifeHealthSoulFadeWithoutWhich

Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.

Ludwig Quidde

ManSaidKindStreetUnderstand

People don't come up to me very often. Everyone is always in such disbelief that I can go to the market.

Julia Roberts

PeopleMeI CanGoAlwaysEveryone

The reason I haven't got an agent is so that no one can contact me to offer me a film part. In case I'm tempted to do something I'll regret later.

Jaye Davidson

MeRegretReasonContactSomething

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

Jonathan Krohn

PoliticsOldYearsGotEight

It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.

Jon Hamm

MarriagePeopleMeFeelMoreMean

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