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The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Golden
Apply
The Problem With
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The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Fingers
Fists
Independent
Organization
Units
Close
Separate
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Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Confidence
Leadership
Quality
Smile
Trust
Begets
Cooperation
Honor
Satisfaction
Trust No One
Brings
Proves
Service
Worth
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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.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Jobs
Done
People
Brief
Done People Things
Definition
Executive
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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
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Jobs
Economy
Selling
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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.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Merchandise
Sell
Personally
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The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Art
Communication
Clear
Effective Listening
Listening
Management
Effective
Essential
Necessary
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It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Children
Consideration
Direct
Economy
Practice
Salespeople
Supervision
Utmost
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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.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Care
Economy
Mind
Take Care
Rest
Merchant
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We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Jobs
Buying
Economy
Goods
Sell
Ordered
Serve
Store
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No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't
James Cash Penney / Businessman
May
Moving
Today
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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.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Economy
Goods
Organization
Stores
Advertisement
Render
Service
Store
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No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Bottom
Tomorrow
Today Tomorrow May
Afford
Forward
Heap
Move Forward
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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.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Life
Economy
Latent
Matter
Position
Life Experience Power
Life Power Experience
Developed
Unused
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In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Integrity
Plus
Views
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They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through his or her efforts.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Effort
Giving
Self
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How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Art
Children
Lying
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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.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Intelligence
Jobs
Running
Effort
Giving
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Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Giving
Matter
Satisfaction
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In every man s life there lies latent energy. There is, however, a spark that, if kindled, will set the whole being afire, and he will become a human dynamo, capable of accomplishing almost anything to which he aspires.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Men
Energy
Lying
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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.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Success
Men
Play
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The friendly smile, the word of greeting, are certainly something fleeting and seemingly insubstantial. You can’t take them with you. But they work for good beyond your power to measure their influence. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Friendly
Giving
People
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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.
James Cash Penney / Businessman
Ideas
Names
Real
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