Rose Blumkin Quotes

“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.”

“Mrs. B accepted my offer without changing a word, and we completed the deal without the involvement of investment bankers or lawyers — an experience that can only be described as heavenly.”

“I'm the best operator — not that I'm bragging — in the country with common sense. I don't know education, books, percentage. I used the old-fashioned way!”

“I'm smart and you're all lucky. I'm smart because I chose to come to the United States, and you're all lucky because you were born here.”

“Was I ever mad! I used to tell them every time I'm able to stab you, I will... some day, I'll put you out of business and I did. They could not stand my competition.”

“Aspiring business managers should look hard at the plain, but rare, attributes that produced Mrs. B's incredible success. Students from 40 universities visit me every year, and I have them start the day with a visit to NFM. If they absorb Mrs. B's lessons, they need none from me.”

“If you took the Fortune 500 CEOs and put them in competition with Mrs. B, she'd win.”