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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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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"You can stroke people with words."
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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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"I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it."
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"No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living."
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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."
Purchase
"Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently."
Man
"The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business."
Business
"There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man."
Time
"Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust."
Trust
"I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems."
Life
"My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people."
People
"Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time."
Time
"It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration."
Family
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