Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.
—James Cash Penney
Topics: Hard Work
I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
—James Cash Penney
Topics: Problems
Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.
—James Cash Penney
Topics: Christmas
Geniuses themselves don’t talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.
—James Cash Penney
Topics: Genius
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
—James Cash Penney
Topics: Listening
Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.
—James Cash Penney
Topics: Intelligence
We should make the Yuletide season an occasion not merely for the giving of material things but an occasion for the giving of that which counts infinitely more … the giving of self.
—James Cash Penney
Topics: Christmas
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.
—James Cash Penney
Topics: General, Goals
Success in business does not depend upon genius. Any young man of ordinary intelligence who is normally sound and not afraid to work should succeed in spite of obstacles and handicaps if he plays the game fairly and keeps everlastingly at it.
—James Cash Penney
Topics: Success
The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.
—James Cash Penney
Topics: Habits
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
—James Cash Penney
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties
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