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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.
In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
I've never been one to dwell on reverses.
Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.
The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
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