No one has the answer; only you know the way home.
Every step of the way, I made a point to underpromise and overdeliver. In the long run, that's the only way to ensure security in any job.
I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.
The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.
Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.
When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.
Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!
It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.