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Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn

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James Cash Penney
Age: 95 †
Born: 1875
Born: September 16
Died: 1971
Died: February 12
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Hamilton
Missouri
Selling
Economy
Learn
Jobs
Away
Merchandise
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Personally
Sell
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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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The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
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My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.
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The disciplined are free.
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Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.
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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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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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The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.
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Honor bespeaks worth Confidence begets trust.
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I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
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Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.
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Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.
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The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
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The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
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Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.
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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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Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
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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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