Marshall Field Quotes

14 quotes in 242 categories

• Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
• Right or wrong, the customer is always right.
• If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men,…
• Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity.…
• I was determined not to remain poor.
• Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.
• To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to…
• The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.
• Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so…
• Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.
• I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures…
• Give the lady what she wants!
• A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise…
• Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

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