A. Alfred Taubman

“There's no such thing as a bad piece of real estate, just a bad deal.”

“You don't just build a mall, you build a community.”

“I've always loved to build, and I've always loved to create.”

“Retailing is a lot like theater.”

“I never look at a piece of land for what it is. I look at it for what it can be.”

“I believe that when you're successful, you have an obligation to give back.”

“All my life, I've made a study of what people do, what they want.”

“Threshold resistance is the natural reluctance of a customer to enter a store.”

“The location is the first thing. The second thing is the location. The third thing is the location.”

“We think of our malls as little cities. You've got everything there.”