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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.

— Harry Gordon Selfridge The Romance of Commerce (1918)

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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)

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)

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