John Wanamaker

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

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

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

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

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

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.

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

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

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.

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

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.

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