John Wanamaker famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Coins #Too Much #Courtesy
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
-- John Wanamaker

#Inspirational #Mountain #May
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
-- John Wanamaker

#Time #Pyramids #People
Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.
-- John Wanamaker

#Thinking
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
-- John Wanamaker

#Business #Marketing #Half
Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.
-- John Wanamaker

#Gratitude #Heart #Expression
When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.
-- John Wanamaker

#Inspirational #Kings #Forget
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 God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
-- John Wanamaker

#Motivational #Years #Overcoming
Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.
-- John Wanamaker

#Snow #Courtesy #Shovels
No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.
-- John Wanamaker

#Mistake #Starting Over #Trying
Confidence! Confidence! Confidence! That is your capital.
-- John Wanamaker

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

#Men #Desire #Causes
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.
-- John Wanamaker

#Integrity #Squares #Honor
You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.
-- John Wanamaker

#Motivational #Yesterday #Wave
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

#Writing #Mind #Buying
It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
-- John Wanamaker

#Easy #Shows
I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.
-- John Wanamaker

#Marketing #Dollars #Half
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

#Love #Moving #Home
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

#Business #Ideas #Succeed
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

#Lying #Believe #Hype
Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.
-- John Wanamaker

#Standards #Raises #Higher

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