Hubert H. Humphrey

There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose.

If you go through some big corporate change, it’s just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don’t sell because there’s inevitably going to be some change.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

When people are ‘stung’ in false investment schemes there are three causes; greed of something for nothing; sheer inability to know their mind; or infantile trustfulness.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man’s back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages.

Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

We decided not to show One Hyde Park til we were 100% ready. A lot of people open the doors too early.

People in the beauty community don’t like copycats, so I think it’s important to stay true to who you are and people will stay your customer.