John Wanamaker Quotes

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.

Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.

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 have had experience in buying them.

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, who believes she has been misled.

Confidence! Confidence! Confidence! That is your capital.

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

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 mutuality.

Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.