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

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

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.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

In every man s life there lies latent energy. There is, however, a spark that, if kindled, will set the whole being afire, and he will become a human dynamo, capable of accomplishing almost anything to which he aspires.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.