Mr Selfridge Quotes

#1. 'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.

Zoe Tapper

#2. Sunday night is curry night. I always order a spinach paneer and a chicken tikka. There's usually something good on TV like 'Mr Selfridge' or 'Downton Abbey,' so I'll watch them before I have to think about blowdrying my hair and all the other boring stuff us girls have to do!

Donna Air

#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. We ought to talk. Had four words ever put more fear into the heart of men around the world? He'd not heard them before himself, but ancient gender memory recognized them well. He was in for it now.

Celeste Bradley

#6. The consumer is always right.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#7. The problem you have isn't a delusion of grandeur; it's a delusion of insignificance.

Steve Maraboli

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#9. The more one learns of this intricate interplay of soil, altitude, weather, and the living tissues of plant and insect (an intricacy that has its astonishing moments, as when sundew and butterwort eat the insects), the more the mystery deepens. Knowledge does not dispel mystery.

Nan Shepherd

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#11. It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

Lord Acton

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

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

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#14. Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"
and want to create no value themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. blocks away. And Selfridge's department store will have anything you need." "I do need a dress for the weekend." She claps her well-manicured hands, nails painted in fire engine red. "Ooh, shopping. I'll go with you if you want." "It'll have to be tonight after work." "No

Magda Alexander

#16. Think positive, Butch.

Horace Dade Ashton

#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. But things are so bad, I feel like I'm going to explode if I don't do something.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#19. People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

Paul Auster

#20. There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

Derek Jeter

#21. God save Osama bin Laden - you will never get him.

Zacarias Moussaoui

#22. I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

Sydney Pollack

#23. To me, he was saying that our reality is shaped by our perceptions. That something is good or bad only because we- you and I- believe it to be so, based on our own experiences.

Nicholas Sparks

#24. The customer is always right.

Harry Gordon Selfridge

#25. Applaud to those who withstand the shards of compromise. May laurel leaves sit on your head, and life-long pride be yours for the taking.

Popo Santos

#26. A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.

Patricia McConnell

#27. Rather than a problem to be solved, the world is a joyful mystery to be contemplated with gladness and praise.

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