John Wanamaker Quotes

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• Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.
• Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
• One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
• No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.
• When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.
• If we could only make our hands move as actively as our tongues, what wonders we could accomplish! Almost everyone loves to hear his own…
• I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.
• I learned 30 years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that…
• Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.
• It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
• In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they…
• A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.
• Confidence! Confidence! Confidence! That is your capital.
• You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.
• Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and…
• Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.
• People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
• Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
• Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer,…
• Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

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