Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

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.

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

I learned 30 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.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.