James Cash Penney Quotes

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• Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

  James Cash Penney

  Business, Organization, Growth

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• As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Looks

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• It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, New Beginnings, Entrepreneur

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• The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Men

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• The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

  James Cash Penney

  Independent, Organization, Fists

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• The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

  James Cash Penney

  Teacher, Jobs, Work

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• Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Educational, Satisfaction

  "$Ell Your Little Heart Out!". Book by Alan L. Alford, p. 71, October 1, 2012.

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• How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

  James Cash Penney

  Art, Children, Lying

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• I learned that all things come to those who wait-provided they hustle while they wait.

  James Cash Penney

  Waiting, Hustle, All Things

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• The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

  James Cash Penney

  Art, Communication, Effective Listening

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• Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.

  James Cash Penney

  Running, Jobs, Giving

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• The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

  James Cash Penney

  People, Giving, Friendly

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• In every man s life there lies latent energy. There is, however, a spark that, if kindled, will set the whole being afire, and he will become a human dynamo, capable of accomplishing almost anything to which he aspires.

  James Cash Penney

  Lying, Men, Energy

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• The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.

  James Cash Penney

  Customer Experience, Satisfied Customers, Wells

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• I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

  James Cash Penney

  Believe, Hard Work, Life Is Hard

  James Cash Penney, Robert Walter Bruère (1931). “J.C. Penney: the Man with a Thousand Partners: An Autobiography of J.C. Penney”

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• Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

  James Cash Penney

  Thinking, Economy, Determine

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• In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value.

  James Cash Penney

  Real, Names, Ideas

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• Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

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  Men, Economy, Method

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• The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

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  Successful, Progress, Cooperation

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• Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

  James Cash Penney

  Men, World, Economy

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• Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

  James Cash Penney

  Giving, Matter, Satisfaction

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• They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through his or her efforts.

  James Cash Penney

  Self, Giving, Effort

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• I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

  James Cash Penney

  Torches, Golden, Remember

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• Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

  James Cash Penney

  Time Management, Good Times, Economy

  James Cash Penney (1960). “View from the Ninth Decade: Jottings from a Merchant's Daybook”

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• No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.

  James Cash Penney

  Men, Feet, Ladders

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