Exchange ideas frequently.
It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.
Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.
Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.
Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.
The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
The more predictable the business, the more valuable it is.
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.
A monopoly of jobs in this country is just as bad as a monopoly of bread!
The other people I don’t take too seriously are the critics-except when they stand in the way of my projects. In my opinion, they mostly write to impress each other, and they’re just as swayed by fashions as anyone else. One week it’s spare glass towers they are praising to the skies. The next week, they’ve rediscovered old, and they’re celebrating detail and ornamentation.
Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.
The headline is the ‘ticket on the meat.’ Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.
I built a great company, one of the – some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.
When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.
Owning a great golf course gives you great power.
The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
Did I have a problem with lying to get the job? None whatsoever.
