- Ground Zero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cash Register Quotes
Where money and everyday life meet at the counter.
The cash register becomes a powerful symbol here, used both literally, as a childhood job at a family restaurant, and politically, as a metaphor for a corrupt "revolving door" of influence. This range connects to our Before quotes collection.
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- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents own a restaurant in downtown Oakland - Garden House - and I started working there at 8. I'd work the cash register while people looked at me skeptically. Free child labor!
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own day-to-day observations confirm that many Americans can barely make change. At the supermarket where I buy groceries, I've watched more than one encounter at the cash register where both customer and clerk are befuddled at the prospect of double-checking the sums.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020