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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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• 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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• No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't

  James Cash Penney

  Moving, May, Today

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

  James Cash Penney

  Men, Economy, Method

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• No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

  James Cash Penney

  Men, Should Have, Phases

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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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• 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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• 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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• The disciplined are free.

  James Cash Penney

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

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• Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

  James Cash Penney

  Business, Practice, Entrepreneur

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• Exchange ideas frequently.

  James Cash Penney

  Ideas

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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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• Every great business is built on friendship.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Educational, Loyal Customers

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

  James Cash Penney

  Limitless, Selling, Salespeople

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• The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

  James Cash Penney

  Golden, Limits, Economy

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• In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.

  James Cash Penney

  Integrity, Views, Plus

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• A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

  James Cash Penney

  Organization, Economy, Stores

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

  James Cash Penney

  Art, Practice, Perfection

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• We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.

  James Cash Penney

  Jobs, Buying, Economy

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• Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

  James Cash Penney

  Life, Change, Improvement

  James Cash Penney (1950). “Fifty Years with the Golden Rule”

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• There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

  James Cash Penney

  Men, Careers, Challenges

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• The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service.

  James Cash Penney

  Saving, Littles, Expenses

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