Quote: Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: Do the next thing. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: 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. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: Nothing comes merely by thinking about it. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: 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 . . . [John Wanamaker]
Quote: When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: 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. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: 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. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: Nothing comes merely by thinking about it. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: 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 voice. It is so easy, too! Yet if we could say less and do more for each other's good, not alone would every home be happier, but communities would be enriched thereby. Instead of criticism by speech, to show someone a better way to do a thing would be of much greater value. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. [John Wanamaker]
Quote: I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half. [John Wanamaker]