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

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Men

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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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• 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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• The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

  James Cash Penney

  Teacher, Jobs, Work

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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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• 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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• 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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• Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

  James Cash Penney

  Limitless, Selling, Salespeople

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

  James Cash Penney

  Successful, Progress, Cooperation

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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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• 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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• 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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• The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspiration, Men, Deeds

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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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• The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.

  James Cash Penney

  Way, Habit, Bad Habits

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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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• Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

  James Cash Penney

  Art, Practice, Perfection

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• The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

  James Cash Penney

  Economy, Shelves, Salesman

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• I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

  James Cash Penney

  Trust, Believe, Failure

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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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