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No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power.

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James Cash Penney
Age: 95 †
Born: 1875
Born: September 16
Died: 1971
Died: February 12
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Hamilton
Missouri
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Economy
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Everyone

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Salesmanship, too, is an art the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
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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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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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Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
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Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to work should succeed in spite of obstacles and handicaps if he plays the game fairly and keeps everlastingly at it.
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I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.
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The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.
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