“I went into a Beverly Hills shop to buy an attache case. They had 250 ...” — Stanley Marcus Quote

“I went into a Beverly Hills shop to buy an attache case. They had 250 cases on their shelves. I asked an attractive saleswoman if they carried one made of belting leather. She said 'no.' That was the end of the conversation. She made no attempt to show me another case that would provide equal service. I didn't buy an attache case.”

“There's a right way to sell and a wrong way to sell.”

“Deciding taste is egotistical, but that's how taste is established, by somebody having the courage to say, 'I don't want to sell that.'”

“Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.”

“Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.”

“The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.”