Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernhard Goetz

While had my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

Dee Hock

With the capacity to communicate, immediately came the evolution of complex communities of organisms: hives, flocks, tribes, herds, whatever.

Ted Turner

You can never quit. Winner never quit, and quitters never win.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

Phil Knight

We're not in the fashion business, as the Wall Street Journal wrote the other day. We're in the sports business, and there's a big difference.

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

Franklin Raines

We believe our overall fiscal policy is providing an environment where businesses can prosper, but we believe tax cuts should be aimed at people.

Lee Iacocca

We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back.

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.

We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.

Erskine Bowles

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

Erskine Bowles

It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.

There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK.

Don't say it's because of benefits, because our benefits are good.

So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.

You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.

Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.

One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.

And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning.

Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased.

But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.

Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.

I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.

In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.

We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.