Sam Walton Quotes
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Practicing love is a difficult thing to do. It's much easier to get angry.
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
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The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.
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You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
