
Top 44 J C Penney Quotes
#1. I think the hedge-fund industry has taken a reputational turn for the worse, this dog-eat-dog stuff. I'm not just talking about Herbalife or J. C. Penney, but in other situations where the media really focuses on who's long and who's short. I don't think it's a good thing for the industry.
Bill Ackman
#2. Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't want anybody's name on my backside. I personally don't like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone's likeness all over it.
Matthew McConaughey
#3. What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than in J. C. Penney pantsuits.
Walker Percy
#4. Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like?
Pat Morita
#5. I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's ... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.
Diahann Carroll
#6. There's a world I could do without: public underwear showings. There was a time in my lifetime when you had to open a J.C. Penney catalog to see people in their underwear. Now it's like the national pastime, hanging out in your underwear. I don't see why they have to pay anyone to model it.
Kristin Billerbeck
#7. Stress is something that makes you feel you can't be yourself.
Penney Peirce
#8. The best way to stop a bad habit is to never begin it
J. C. Penney
#10. I am grateful for all of 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
#11. I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
James Cash Penney
#12. No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.
James Cash Penney
#13. Who has two thumbs and isn't an idiot?
R.S. Penney
#14. Used to Sears, JC Penney, and Woolworth's, Birmingham's stores sounded foreign: Gucci, Jacobson's, and Dittrich Furs. Underground parking kept the shoppers flawlessly coifed and dry - a scene from a Hollywood movie.
Claudia Whitsitt
#15. No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.
James Cash Penney
#16. Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."
Stef Penney
#17. The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.
James Cash Penney
#19. We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.
James Cash Penney
#20. No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.
James Cash Penney
#21. I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.
James Cash Penney
#22. Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.
James Cash Penney
#23. Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that.
Stef Penney
#25. The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.
James Cash Penney
#26. Your contribution is the energy produced in the doing of something, not the end product.
Penney Peirce
#27. Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
James Cash Penney
#28. I despise this weakness in myself
this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action ...
Stef Penney
#29. Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
James Cash Penney
#30. 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.
James Cash Penney
#31. I can't do anything about the thoughts that come into my head, but I can do something about the ones that stay there!.
Penney Peirce
#32. Clearly the secret of happiness ... is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.
Stef Penney
#33. 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
#34. The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service.
James Cash Penney
#35. Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.
James Cash Penney
#36. The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
Alexandra Penney
#37. I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
James Cash Penney
#38. I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.
Stef Penney
#39. There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.
James Cash Penney
#40. Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling
it's about choosing.
Penney Peirce
#41. Your personal vibration or energy state is a blend of the contracted or expanded frequencies of your body, emotions, and thoughts at any given moment. The more you allow your soul to shine through you, the higher your personal vibration will be.
Penney Peirce
#42. Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally.
Penney Peirce
#43. Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.
James Cash Penney
#44. I don't use real people for inspiration.
Stef Penney
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