Peter Hay > Quotes

“When F. W. Woolworth opened his first store, a merchant on the
same street tried to fight the new competition. He hung out a big
sign: "Doing business in this same spot for over fifty years." The
next day Woolworth also put out a sign. It read: "Established a
week ago: no old stock.”
― Peter Hay, The Book of Business Anecdotes

“But throughout my childhood I had met people with numbers tattooed on their arms, and I heard it whispered that they had come back from death. So I had always thought of death as a place somewhere in Poland: it was called Auschwitz.”
― Peter Hay, Ordinary Heroes: The Life and Death of Chana Szenes, Israel's National Heroine

“Zionism, as a word, was invented less than a century ago. But when Chana fell in love with Zion at the age of seventeen, the idea was already three thousand years old.”
― Peter Hay, Ordinary Heroes: The Life and Death of Chana Szenes, Israel's National Heroine