James Cash Penney Quotes

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

  James Cash Penney

  Business, Organization, Growth

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

  James Cash Penney

  Successful, Progress, Cooperation

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• It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

  James Cash Penney

  People, Giving, Obliged

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• The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

  James Cash Penney

  Teacher, Jobs, Work

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

  James Cash Penney

  Men, Economy, Method

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

  James Cash Penney

  Customer Experience, Satisfied Customers, Wells

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• Exchange ideas frequently.

  James Cash Penney

  Ideas

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• The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply

  James Cash Penney

  Stay Positive, Golden, Problem

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

  James Cash Penney

  Trust, Responsibility, Given

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