Leon Leonwood Bean quotes

“Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.”
-- Leon Leonwood Bean

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“One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.”

“You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.”

“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”

Source : "Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization". Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.

“The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult

“How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.”

“You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.”

Source : "Q & A: Afrika Bambaataa Spins Hip-Hop Knowledge". Q&A with Simon McCormack, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

“Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.”

Source : "Can this 'venture philanthropist' save our schools?". www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.

“There is no effect without a cause. Chiropractors adjust causes. Others treat effects.”

“We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.”

“Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?”