Harry Selfridge's Quotes

#1. If we can't describe our reality accurately, we can't see it.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#2. The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!

Leonard Ravenhill

#3. An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them ...

Dalton Trumbo

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#6. People look at you and forget about things.

Diana Abu-Jaber

#7. The consumer is always right.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#9. Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.

Tom DeLonge

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#12. In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself.

Paul Feig

#13. Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

Mike Tyson

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#15. In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

Dexter Gordon

#16. Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Peter Greenaway

#17. 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

#18. It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers.

Michael Haneke

#19. I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States, and Ed Sullivan called me first about them before he ever booked them on his television show.

Sid Bernstein

#20. 'English Rose' - what does that actually mean? That I am pale? That I am English, maybe? They are going to say that about any actress from this country!

Rachel Hurd-Wood

#21. We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

David Beckham

#22. We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.

Hal Sutton

#23. Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#24. The customer is always right.

Harry Gordon Selfridge