Top 100 Penney Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Penney

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than in J. C. Penney pantsuits.

Walker Percy

#5. 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

#6. Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like?

Pat Morita

#7. I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's ... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

Diahann Carroll

#8. Most gay bashers will be wearing what gay people had on four years earlier - only in polyester with a Penney's label.

Paul Rudnick

#9. 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

#10. No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.

James Cash Penney

#11. The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

James Cash Penney

#12. A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

James Cash Penney

#13. It just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.

Stef Penney

#14. Our biggest priority should be to stay engaged.

Penney Peirce

#15. It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.

James Cash Penney

#16. My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

James Cash Penney

#17. A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

James Cash Penney

#18. If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

Stef Penney

#19. It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

James Cash Penney

#20. I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong." Anyway, it's fiction.

Stef Penney

#21. Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

James Cash Penney

#22. Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

Stef Penney

#23. I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

James Cash Penney

#24. The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

James Cash Penney

#25. If people treat a cemetery like trash, it's a good indication of how they feel about the people buried there and those who are still receiving services," she said.

Darby Penney

#26. They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through his or her efforts.

James Cash Penney

#27. The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

James Cash Penney

#28. In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.

James Cash Penney

#29. Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

James Cash Penney

#30. The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

James Cash Penney

#31. Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

James Cash Penney

#32. Intuition is a powerful tool that can heal the painful split we all feel between our earthly, mundane selves and our divine, eternal selves. When we realize that our spiritual knowledge is in us right now, and always has been, we become filled with light, light-hearted, and enlightened.

Penney Peirce

#33. Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

James Cash Penney

#34. I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

James Cash Penney

#35. Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

James Cash Penney

#36. The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

James Cash Penney

#37. Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.

Stef Penney

#38. Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

James Cash Penney

#39. The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

James Cash Penney

#40. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

James Cash Penney

#41. Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

James Cash Penney

#42. I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

James Cash Penney

#43. The soul has no other wish than to have an unlimited number of fearless, joyful playmates on the journey home.

Penney Peirce

#44. Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

James Cash Penney

#45. The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.

James Cash Penney

#46. The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

James Cash Penney

#47. Projection into the future does not create security because the future is not really there. It's a fluid mirage. The only security is merging with The Field, right now.

Penney Peirce

#48. Any given moment contains unlimited futures that can become real. The reality that occurs is the one you pay attention to.

Penney Peirce

#49. Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.

Stef Penney

#50. I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

James Cash Penney

#51. Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

James Cash Penney

#52. As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

James Cash Penney

#53. I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.

Stef Penney

#54. I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

Stef Penney

#55. I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

Stef Penney

#56. I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

James Cash Penney

#57. 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

#58. Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

James Cash Penney

#59. Stress is something that makes you feel you can't be yourself.

Penney Peirce

#60. The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.

Alexandra Penney

#61. I don't use real people for inspiration.

Stef Penney

#62. 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

#63. Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally.

Penney Peirce

#64. 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

#65. Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling
it's about choosing.

Penney Peirce

#66. There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

James Cash Penney

#67. No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

James Cash Penney

#68. I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

James Cash Penney

#69. Your contribution is the energy produced in the doing of something, not the end product.

Penney Peirce

#70. Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.

James Cash Penney

#71. The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service.

James Cash Penney

#72. 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

#73. Clearly the secret of happiness ... is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

Stef Penney

#74. 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

#75. Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

James Cash Penney

#76. I despise this weakness in myself
this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action ...

Stef Penney

#77. Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

James Cash Penney

#78. The disciplined are free.

James Cash Penney

#79. The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

James Cash Penney

#80. Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

James Cash Penney

#81. The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.

James Cash Penney

#82. No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.

James Cash Penney

#83. Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.

James Cash Penney

#84. Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

James Cash Penney

#85. The best way to stop a bad habit is to never begin it

J. C. Penney

#86. There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

James Cash Penney

#87. I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

James Cash Penney

#88. How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

James Cash Penney

#89. 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

#90. Our own private intuition is the catalyst for self-improvement and self-realization, because when it comes to making deep and lasting changes in one's personal life, it is only subjective experience, not facts, that registers as real.

Penney Peirce

#91. 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