There is never a good sale for Neiman-Marcus unless it’s a good buy for the customer. –Herbert Marcus, cofounder of Neiman Marcus, speaking to his son in 1926, quoted by Stanley Marcus in Minding the Store (1974), quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations. See also Selling is Serving.
Daily Archives: September 4, 2008
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Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. — C. Northcote Parkinson, in Economist, 19 Nov 1955, quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.