Gordon Selfridge Quotes

#1. There are no hard times for good ideas.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#2. I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

Steve Martin

#3. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says 'I'; The leader says 'We'.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#4. The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#5. Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things ... in order that the world may be ever new.

Marcus Aurelius

#6. Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained

Carlos Castaneda

#7. The consumer is always right.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#8. Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock" (1 Pet. 5:3). My interpretation: "These leaders must lead by example for God's people to follow them" I did not say be an example, but by example. In this way they earn their respect from others.

Stephen Everett

#9. Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#10. The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

Jim Fowler

#11. The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#12. Excite the mind, and the hand will reach for the pocket.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#13. When I die, never say that I am gone. The sun sets. The moon fades. My body perishes. But my leaving has nothing to do with being gone. I will stay forever with you.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#14. The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you're criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself.

Lisa Randall

#15. A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them
as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself
into the grave, and is forgotten.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#16. People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#17. Questions are the heart and soul of constructive conflict. They open up the exploration, bring in new information, and reframe debate. When

Margaret Heffernan

#18. The customer is always right.

Harry Gordon Selfridge