Alfred Taubman Quotes
103 Alfred Taubman Quotes (Adolph Alfred Taubman, Taubman Centers)
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To succeed, you have to look beyond immediate barriers and see opportunities.
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Breaking down barriers is very rewarding.
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The better your idea, the more some people will want you to fail. Believe in yourself, and you’re on your way.
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The idea of retailing is to get people inside the store.
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Dressing store windows is an art.
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Every day, we encounter psychological, physical, cultural, social, and economic barriers. In order to accomplish anything, people have to find a way to get beyond the limitations…
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I never lost my sense of curiosity and the desire to learn.
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I learned that a lack of capital was no barrier to entry if you had a good idea.
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I learned that my strengths were far more important than my shortcomings…
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Entrepreneurs often see staying put as a more risky proposition than moving on.
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Entrepreneurs… seem to understand that being different makes it necessary to create their own paths. That’s a powerful motivation.
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I wanted to create places where customers would want to shop and retailers would want to do business – more business than they had ever done before.
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I realized that while I enjoyed architecture and drawing. I really wanted to build.
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It came naturally to me to look at things differently. But it’s something you have to work on and became accustomed to doing.
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It just makes sense that if the fate of my family name and fortune are directly linked with the business I’m running, my effort and commitment – in most cases – will exceed those of a ‘hired hand.’ Call it passion. Call it love. Call it survival. Family employees and leaders just have more skin in the game.
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No one goes to buy candy necessarily, they buy those things because it's there, because they can smell it, they can touch it.
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Developing a regional shopping center requires the talents of many people.
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‘This better work kid.’ It’s your ass if it doesn’t. Strong words. Especially when you consider they were directed at a twenty-four-year old store planner by Milton J Petrie, founder and chairman of the Petrie Stores Corporation. It was 1948, and I had just presented Petrie with an alternative plan for an apparel store he intended to build in Highland Park, Michigan, a close-in suburb of Detroit.
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What did a junior draftsman half his age at the Charles N. Agree architecture firm know that he didn’t?
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I may not have owned any stores at the time, but I had been selling things – shoes, clothes, flowers – to people since I was a kid. I had studied design in college and had some experience in the field.
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Where [Milton] Petrie saw a tried-and-tested recipe for retailing success, I saw an inefficient use of space; were Petrie’s experienced store designers saw opportunity, I saw unnecessary barriers.
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Most important of all, in my design, far less stood between the customer and the goods, the customer and the salespeople, the customer and a sale!
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Threshold resistance… The physical and psychological barriers that stand between your shoppers and your merchandise. It’s the force that keeps your customer from opening your door and coming in over the threshold. I think we can reduce all that with this new design.
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That’s when those glorious words came out of his mouth. ‘This better work, kid. It’s your ass if it doesn’t.’… From that initial meeting, Milton Petrie and I developed a close friendship, which continued to the day he died, in 1994, at the age of ninety-two.
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[From 1948] The Taubman Company… over more than half a century, we have pioneered the development of shopping centers, transformed the nature and experience of luxury retailing, and created tens of thousands of jobs. Today, Taubman Centers owns and/or manages twenty-three large centers in the United States.
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Developing unique retail environments certainly made me wealthy – wealthier than I could have ever imagined.
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When you get to be my age, there’s only so much golfing, fishing and shooting you can do.
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Every day, we encounter psychological, physical, cultural, social, and economic barriers. In order to accomplish anything, people have to find a way to get beyond the limitations they believe that personal background, conventional wisdom, common practice, or experience has placed on their imaginations…
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Successful entrepreneurs and builders possess a sort of serial vision that allows them to look past things as they are to see how they could be better, not just different – and hence more valuable. It means looking at a wheat field in a rural area and seeing a massive shopping center…
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I was born in 1924, five years before the start of the Great Depression, in Pontiac, Michigan, to German Jewish immigrants Fannie and Philip Taubman.
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School was not easy for me, either… Back then, dyslexia, which I have struggled with all my life, was diagnosed as slowness or stupidity.
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Where others saw challenges, my teachers saw potential. I think that’s why I so respect the teaching profession and have made education a major focus of my philanthropy.
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After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor… I couldn’t wait to enlist… It was around this time that I stopped used my first name, Adolph.
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I learned the value of service and convenience, as well as presentation and delivery to pull the customer toward a new opportunity.
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Even the most difficult personal and business challenges – whether physical or psychological – could be overcome if understood and confronted forcefully.
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[As a young man] I was impatient. I was eager to get out and take advantage of what I saw as a world of opportunity.
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I think men and women who go it alone in business are different. Because of that, they’re also very insecure, which is not always a bad thing.
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Many entrepreneurs don’t grow up comfortably fitting in. I certainly didn’t.
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Growing up different has convinced them that the only person they can really count on to make it all happen is the person they look at in the mirror every morning.
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In 1950, at age twenty-six, I turned to the guy in the mirror, and with a $5,000 loan from Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit (now part of Comerica), started paving my own path.
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