140 Quotes by Howard Davidowitz

The most important people who have to be motivated are the store employees; they're your life blood. Federated knows this.

Some retailers are already marking up 40- to 50-percent off signs as we speak.

Specialty apparel is a very fast-moving business. It's also a fickle business of fashion and creativity where the winners are those retailers who can constantly reinvent themselves and their products.

As a negotiating strategy, I would assume Saks is trying to package the whole thing -- to sell the good with the bad.

The brand as we know it is dead. Any brand that's built exclusively around a single personality can't survive something like this.

The business is getting smaller -- the advertising, the TV, the magazine -- everything is going down. This company is not going to go away tomorrow. However, the losses are getting scary.

Back-to-school has been very soft and therefore prices are coming down. The discount signs are already being made. Both Wal-Mart and Target have had anemic growth over the summer. The only sector that has done well is luxury.

You see the guy out on the street selling coffee, donuts, fruit - his business is destroyed. There are a lot of small businesses that will close or that won't be able to pay their bills next year because of the strike.

This is an era in which corporations want to be lily white because corporate governance is on the front burner.