Harry Gordon Selfridge quotes

The customer is always right. (Harry Gordon Selfridge)
Excite the mind, and the hand will reach for the pocket. View quote
Harry Gordon Selfridge
Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage. View quote
Harry Gordon Selfridge
Commerce is the mother of the arts, the sciences, the professions, and in this twentieth century has itself become an art, a science, a profession. View quote
Harry Gordon Selfridge
The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill. View quote
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There are no hard times for good ideas. View quote
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The boss drives people; The leader coaches them. View quote
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The boss says 'Go'; the leader says 'Let's go!' View quote
Harry Gordon Selfridge
Commerce creates wealth, and it is the foundation of the great state. Armies are raised and paid for to win, or to protect the countries' trade, or commerce. Ships are constructed, colonies established, inventions encouraged, governments built up, or pulled down, for Commerce. Commerce cuts the way, and all professions, all arts follow. View quote
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[W]ithout Commerce there is no wealth. View quote
Harry Gordon Selfridge
Bigness alone is nothing, but bigness filled with the activity that does everything continually better means much. (Harry Gordon Selfridge)
No one has more than a given number of minutes... in which he can work, and no matter how great his ability he will soon find his limitations. If, however, he uses that ability in finding and teaching others as capable as himself, or in certain details even more so, the limits to his sphere of operations are hard to set. View quote
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The last hundred years have shown... that one man cannot do it all, and that anyone who attempts to hold within his two hands all the threads of a great business of the present day fails to achieve the greatest success. View quote
Harry Gordon Selfridge
The world is smaller. Steam and electricity, great ships, railways and many recorded experiences have made it so; but as the circumference of this earth has seemed to diminish its commercial undertakings have grown greater. View quote
Harry Gordon Selfridge