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John Wanamaker
American
Businessman
About the author
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,
American
Businessman
#Effect
#Advertising
#Customer
#Deception
When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.
John Wanamaker,
American
Businessman
#Forget
#Customer
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
John Wanamaker,
American
Businessman
#Time
#People
#Illness
#Recreation
Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.
John Wanamaker,
American
Businessman
#Nothing
#Thinking
Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.
John Wanamaker,
American
Businessman
#Day
#Old
It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
John Wanamaker,
American
Businessman
#Work
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
John Wanamaker,
American
Businessman
#Talk
#People
#Business
I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.
John Wanamaker,
American
Businessman
#Money
#Advertising
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.
John Wanamaker,
American
Businessman
#Trouble
#Money
#Advertising
Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.
John Wanamaker,
American
Businessman
#Snow
Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
John Wanamaker,
American
Businessman
#Courtesy