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Rose Blumkin Quotes
11 quotes from Rose Blumkin — Founder of Nebraska Furniture Mart, which became the largest furniture store in North America..
“Everything I made stayed in the business. I never had a vacation, never went any place, never made parties. Accumulated penny by penny.”
“Sell cheap and tell the truth, don't cheat nobody, and don't take no kickbacks.”
“The more they boycotted me, the harder I worked.”
“I want to be my own boss. Nobody's going to tell me what to do.”
“Why retire and wait for death? It will come one day sooner or later anyway, and certainly sooner if you do not do anything.”
“I dreamed all my life, since I was six years old. The first dream of mine was to go to America.”
“When I came to this country, I thought I am the luckiest one in the world.”
“Even if you don't have money, if you try, you could have it. I only had ambition, that's all.”
“I don't like rich society people. Rich people are rude to you when you're poor; I don't forget that.”
“I work to avoid the grave.”
“It's better to have them hate you than to feel sorry for you.”