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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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