Alfred Taubman Quotes
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I realized that while I enjoyed architecture and drawing. I really wanted to build. Part of it was for lifestyle reasons. I couldn’t see anyone in architecture who had done well financially.
Alfred Taubman
I preferred the energy and excitement of construction sites and negotiating deals to sitting at tables and drawing.
Alfred Taubman
We did something comparatively radical: we moved the stores from the front of the lot to the back, and put the parking in front of the retail stores.
Alfred Taubman
America’s affinity for a suburban lifestyle is certainly not a new aspiration. In fact archaeologists discovered the following inscription on a clay tablet dating back to 539 BC: ‘Our property seems to me the most beautiful in the world. It is so close to Babylon that we enjoy all the advantages of the city, and yet when we come home we are away from all the noise and dust.’
Alfred Taubman
Contrary to dinner party myth, retail follows residential growth. People shop where they live, not necessarily where they work.
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Recently built and soon-to-be-built highways were changing everything. Old shopping patterns were meaningless. Trade areas of 50,000 to 60,000 people were expanding overnight to 250,000.
Alfred Taubman
Without the freeways, our trade area would have encompassed a five-mile circle, in which shoppers would travel twenty minutes to the center. With the freeway, the circle expanded to ten miles, which meant three times as many people.
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In the end, a compelling opportunity overcame entrenched threshold resistance to a new way of thinking.
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[On Max Fisher] He saw philanthropy as an opportunity – a privilege you earn as you succeed in life. It’s not something you have to do; it’s something that you should want to do.
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There are great rewards and joys in helping others and making a difference in your community.
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What’s right is right, and we always conducted our business that way.
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Isn’t everybody innocent until proven guilty?
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I’m a wealthy man with a leaky house!
Alfred Taubman
Without the guidance and the persuasiveness of a salesperson, the hunt for information online tends to be endless. It’s pretty easy to talk yourself out of a purchase when you can sit for hours reading negative product reviews…
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Never underestimate the value of a knowledgeable salesperson.
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[In 2006] Malls aren’t dinosaurs. And neither is another great twentieth century economic force that people have been writing off: Detroit.
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Over the last eight decades, I’ve enjoyed great success and experienced gut-wrenching personal failure. But through it all I’ve stayed positive, always seeing opportunity in even the toughest challenges.
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Breaking down barriers is very rewarding. It can be scary and risky. It can also be fun.
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Every success involved placing opportunities in front of customers, offering value, and providing an enriching, entertaining experience.
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Figuring out how to make things better, not just different, is the first step in any business plan.
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Success always leads to greater confidence.
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Even at a young age I was aware of the barriers – threshold resistance – I would have to overcome to enjoy the level of success I could only dream about. Early on, I discovered that hard work broke through a lot of those hurdles.
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I saw that there was money to be made by people who could build and own stores or, better yet, groups of stores.
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With essentially every object or vista I see, I think about how it could be better.
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Founding families give their companies distinctive flavor and soul.
Alfred Taubman
I started working when I was 9. I really wanted to make some money.
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The only point that the customer actually touches the shopping center is the floor. They’ve got traction as they’re walking. Very important. Some of our competitors put in carpet. Carpet’s the worst thing you can have because it creates friction.
Alfred Taubman
[In June 2007 on art prices.] As a collector, prices seem high to me. The market has to come down to keep economic balance.
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If I sell a Van Gogh painting, I can’t order another. I can with living artists.
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I mean, we waste a lot of human beings by throwing them away, and if they become 65, they don't have anything to do, that's a tragedy.
Alfred Taubman
Human beings ought to have an opportunity to use their minds, use their bodies. The more they're used the better they become.
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I'm all for the science, but I also want to know how we're gonna deal with people, how we're gonna deal with their minds.
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I like to think that I have third dimensional thought. I think inventive people have third dimensional thought. Third dimensional thought, to try to describe it, is simply this, that I look at something, I'll look at an object and my mind merely immediately goes to how can that object change and be better, not just different. How could we do it better?
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I've always been interested in objects and changing objects and making objects more beautiful, more interesting, more usable.
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I'm glad this country believes that we can give everyone an opportunity and take people that haven't had an opportunity and give them that opportunity.
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This country has got so many opportunities.
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I went into business. I was 26 years old. That was 59 years ago.
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I went into business with the idea that I wanted to design and build. I just didn't want to design or a just didn't want to build, I wanted to do both.
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One of the most interesting things about the retail business is it's built around fashion, it's built around fashion and it'll never change,...prices go down, prices go up, but those people coming up with a new idea, a new color, a new fashion, they're always gonna win.
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People desire fashion. I understood that and I understood the way people shop. I've always had a sense of knowing the way they shop.
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