James Cash Penney

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

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

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

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

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.

The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly, gradually, furtively, little by little; first with a little corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and wretched, later with corn and oil for voters who were not quite so poor, later still with corn and oil for pretty much every man that had a vote to sellexactly our own history over again.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows – it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.