Frases de Harry Gordon Selfridge

Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr. [1]​[2]​ fue un magnate de negocios norteamericano que fundó la tienda de departamentos Selfridges en Londres. Su liderazgo de 20 años de Selfridges hizo que se convirtiera en el más respetado y rico de los magnates comerciantes del Reino Unido. Era apodado el «Conde de la Calle Oxford».[3]​

Nacido en Ripon, Wisconsin,[4]​ Selfridge comenzó repartiendo periódicos y dejó la escuela a la edad de 14 años cuando consiguió trabajo en un banco en Jackson, Míchigan. Luego de varios trabajos, Selfridge consigue un puesto en Marshall Field's en Chicago, donde trabaja los siguientes 25 años.

En 1890, contrae matrimonio con Rose Buckingham, de la prominente familia Buckingham de Chicago.

En 1906, a su regreso de un viaje a Londres, Selfridge invierte 400,000 libras para construir su propia tienda de departamentos en lo que era el alicaido extremo oeste de la Oxford Street. El nuevo almacén fue inaugurado el 15 de marzo de 1909, y Selfridge fue su Gerente General hasta su retiro en 1941. En 1947, fallece a causa de una neumonía a la edad de 89 años. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. enero 1858 – 8. mayo 1947
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Harry Gordon Selfridge: Frases en inglés

“Bigness alone is nothing, but bigness filled with the activity that does everything continually better means much.”

The Romance of Commerce (1918), A Representative Business of the Twentieth Century

“[W]ithout Commerce there is no wealth.”

The Romance of Commerce (1918), Concerning Commerce

“[T]he artist sells the work of his brush and in this he is a merchant. The writer sells to any who will buy, let his ideas be what they will. The teacher sells his knowledge of books—often in too low a market—to those who would have this knowledge passed on to the young.
The doctor... too is a merchant. His stock-in-trade is his intimate knowledge of the physical man and his skill to prevent or remove disabilities. ...The lawyer sometimes knows the laws of the land and sometimes does not, but he sells his legal language, often accompanied by common sense, to the multitude who have not yet learned that a contentious nature may squander quite as successfully as the spendthrift. The statesman sells his knowledge of men and affairs, and the spoken or written exposition of his principles of Government; and he receives in return the satisfaction of doing what he can for his nation, and occasionally wins as well a niche in its temple of fame.
The man possessing many lands, he especially would be a merchant... and sell, but his is a merchandise which too often nowadays waits in vain for the buyer. The preacher, the lecturer, the actor, the estate agent, the farmer, the employé, all, all are merchants, all have something to dispose of at a profit to themselves, and the dignity of the business is decided by the manner in which they conduct the sale.”

The Romance of Commerce (1918), Concerning Commerce