{"quotes":[{"text":"Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don’t want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill.","author":"Chris Murray","tags":["business","business-advice","business","business-success","business-to-business","buying","buying-decision","buying-decision","customers","earn-the-right","influence","influence","money","negotiation","sales","sales-effectiveness","sales-training","salesmanship","salespeople","selling","selling-skills","selling-tips","shopping","trust","value"],"id":8876,"author_id":"Chris+Murray"},{"text":"When your pipeline is full – with business coming out of your ears – the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you’ll already be at capacity.","author":"Chris Murray","tags":["business","business-advice","business","business-success","business-to-business","buying","buying-decision","buying-decision","customers","earn-the-right","influence","influence","money","negotiation","sales","sales-effectiveness","sales-training","salesmanship","salespeople","selling","selling-skills","selling-tips","shopping","trust"],"id":8914,"author_id":"Chris+Murray"},{"text":"Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale’s.","author":"Sophie Kinsella","tags":["addict","addiction","bloomingdales","confession","money","shop","shopaholic","shopping"],"id":12416,"author_id":"Sophie+Kinsella"},{"text":"Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, deadened by tourists and shoppers, the twin curse ay modern capitalism.","author":"Irvine Welsh","tags":["capitalism","shopping","tourism"],"id":14913,"author_id":"Irvine+Welsh"},{"text":"Christmas comes but once a year, starts in August ends in July.","author":"Benny Bellamacina","tags":["christmas","humour","life","observation","shopping","wisdom"],"id":16374,"author_id":"Benny+Bellamacina"},{"text":"There was a product which seemed attractive, expensive, portable, beautiful and simple. Everybody talked about its beauty but they bought it for it's simplicity.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["aesthetic","aesthetics","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","beauty","bought","business","buying","customers","expenditure","expensive","inspirational","manufacturing","marketing","money","motivational","philosophy","portable","product","product-design","product-selling","purchase","retail-business","sale","shopping","simple","simplicity","wisdom"],"id":17737,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"But with each step she took, Mythili realized why most people don’t go shopping alone. It’s because this mind of ours gets pretty damn busy. It starts analyzing every little stimulus you receive. And because you don’t have another human being walking next to you distracting you from all the little stuff you should be ignoring, your mind takes it upon itself to provide you with companionship and talk you through your life.","author":"Shweta Ganesh Kumar","tags":["dependent","guilt","humour","shopping"],"id":19346,"author_id":"Shweta+Ganesh+Kumar"},{"text":"It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires.","author":"Anton Strout","tags":["humorous","shopping","vampires","zombies"],"id":35043,"author_id":"Anton+Strout"},{"text":"With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.","author":"Jo Brand","tags":["children","small","shopping "],"id":35359,"author_id":"Jo+Brand"},{"text":"The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.","author":"Irvine Welsh","tags":["christmas","greed","shopping","tacky"],"id":44601,"author_id":"Irvine+Welsh"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":98,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}