Top 35 Wanamaker Quotes
#1. Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
John Wanamaker
#2. Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
Zoe Wanamaker
#3. Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.
John Wanamaker
#4. I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
Zoe Wanamaker
#5. I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
Zoe Wanamaker
#6. In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them ...
John Wanamaker
#8. When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.
John Wanamaker
#9. I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.
John Wanamaker
#10. Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.
John Wanamaker
#11. 'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
Zoe Wanamaker
#12. I don't have the confidence to be a personality.
Zoe Wanamaker
#13. Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
John Wanamaker
#14. I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.
John Wanamaker
#15. My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
Zoe Wanamaker
#16. The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.
Cleveland Amory
#17. I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study - more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and woman are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than the eternal principles laid down by God, Himself.
John Wanamaker
#18. Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.
John Wanamaker
#19. And children? 'I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.
Zoe Wanamaker
#20. No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.
John Wanamaker
#21. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
John Wanamaker
#22. You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.
John Wanamaker
#23. John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
Dale Carnegie
#24. Confidence! Confidence! Confidence! That is your capital.
John Wanamaker
#25. People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
John Wanamaker
#26. A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.
John Wanamaker
#27. I don't know any woman who is happy with her looks. I certainly wouldn't want to be friends with anyone who was.
Zoe Wanamaker
#28. I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.
Zoe Wanamaker
#29. Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.
John Wanamaker
#30. Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.
John Wanamaker
#31. I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
Zoe Wanamaker
#32. It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
John Wanamaker
#33. Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
Zoe Wanamaker
#34. Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.
John Wanamaker
#35. My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
Zoe Wanamaker
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