140 Quotes by Howard Davidowitz

He really knows the shopping center business from the ground up,

He's a brilliant financial engineer, ... His record is always the same: cut costs, sell assets. That's terrific, only that's no way to run a retail business.

You can see clearly how the terror attacks have affected the American psyche. People are staying more at home, spending more time with the family and eating out at restaurants. At the same time, anecdotal evidence shows that sales of products such as flashlights, candles, first-aid kits has boomed.

Here they are with similar size stores to Bed, Bath & Beyond. They're in similar kinds of locations. And they're in similar kinds of demographics,

The margins are positive, but sales are eroding,

He's done an incredible job of buying $100 worth of real estate for a dollar.

This is moving the deck chairs on the Titanic.

has been trying very hard to do that for a long time. So far they have been left with a giant loss of market share.

The energy cost in the equation is grossly underestimated, ... The consumer is already stretched to the limit and doesn't have an extra $1,000 to pay if the home bill goes up.