Mr Harry Selfridge Quotes

#1. I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

Lanford Wilson

#2. The customer is always right.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#3. Nothing's ever real until it's real.

George A. Romero

#4. "One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman's selfhood and her dreams."
Mother to Sherlock, Mycroft, and Enola Holmes by author Nancy Springer

Vannessa Anderson

#5. I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

Damon Galgut

#6. 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

#7. Peabody, you never cease to amaze me."
"One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers."
"Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime."
"Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.

J.D. Robb

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#12. The consumer is always right.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#13. Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.

Martin Luther

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge