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1858–1947 United States
Harry Gordon Selfridge (January 11, 1858–May 8, 1947) was an American-British retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges after retiring as Marshall Field's partner, opening and selling Harry G. Selfridge and Co. in Chicago in only 2 months, and moving to England.
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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.
People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.
Bigness alone is nothing, but bigness filled with the activity that does everything continually better means much.
The Romance of Commerce (1918)
Commerce is the mother of the arts, the sciences, the professions, and in this twentieth century has itself become an art, a science, a profession.
The Romance of Commerce (1918)
Imagination must be drawn upon, risks must be assumed. "Nothing venture, nothing have" is perhaps truer of the department store than of any other enterprise.
The Romance of Commerce (1918)
If Commerce is necessary to wealth, no Commerce means no wealth, and our statesman soon finds himself out of employment. Where wealth again is greatest, everything else being fairly equal, arts thrive the most.
The Romance of Commerce (1918)
The world is smaller. Steam and electricity, great ships, railways and many recorded experiences have made it so; but as the circumference of this earth has seemed to diminish its commercial undertakings have grown greater.
The Romance of Commerce (1918)
The floors are of marble or mosaic or are covered with hundreds of thousands of yards of carpets. The lifts are almost without number...
The Romance of Commerce (1918)
Ever since that moment when two individuals first lived upon this earth, one has had what the other wanted, and has been willing for a consideration to part with his possession.
The Romance of Commerce (1918)
One of the chief differences between the commerce of the sixteenth century and of the twentieth lies in the wonderful and complicated organizations of the present day. Their magnitude makes even the largest of those of which we have been reading seem insignificant.
The Romance of Commerce (1918)
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