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The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

James Cash Penney

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James Cash Penney
Age: 95 †
Born: 1875
Born: September 16
Died: 1971
Died: February 12
Businessman
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Hamilton
Missouri
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Every great business is built on friendship.
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No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.
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Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
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No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.
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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.
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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.
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