There is never a good sale for Neiman-Marcus unless it's a good buy for the customer.

A poor soul burdened with a corpse,' Epictetus calls you.

A successful business comes from primarily attaining more customers and repeat sales.

You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.

When you are outraged by somebody’s impudence, ask yourself at once, “Can the world exist without impudent people?” It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.

The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.