J. C. Penney: Old Thoughts but Forever Truths

A review of J. C. Penney's book, "Fifty Years with the Golden Rule."

​“I don't have much patience with people I hear saying that it is impossible to get good people for jobs. . . . Won't it follow naturally that if a business idea is basically sound it will draw to itself quality people, not only because of the job but because they want to be connected with a business whose underlying idea has vigor, and offers scope for individual initiative?"

​​“Our country could have been mightier than it is, had not some throughout every period of its history retarded its growth by greed, corruption in high places, petty partisanship in crucial periods, and individual selfishness.  . . .  Selfishness, of course, is the festering spot in every evil situation, whether world, nation, or individual.”

​​“My advice to young people today is to let no day pass without pushing personal standards a notch higher. The law of struggle is the essence of all life—animal, vegetable, and human. Our progress from birth to death is marked by struggle, and rightly so, for when we cease to struggle, dry rot takes over.   . . .  Young people who count not their hours but their opportunities are the ones who maintain the difficult road to success.”

J. C. Penney, Excerpts from "Fifty Years with the Golden Rule"

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