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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.

Sam Walton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: March 29, 1918 - April 5, 1992

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Business Mistakes You Go Run Out

Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.

John Burnside

Birds Woods Find Ancestors Nuts Set

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Freedom Free Believe More Enslaved

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Best Know Way Intimacy Fiction Act

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

Tommy Hilfiger

Me Reading Never Algebra Get Just

I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Son Fun People Loved Talking Year

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

Roy Moore

Government You Rights Take Give

I don't think I've decided much in my life. Don't you think life just happens?

Molly Ivins

Life Think My Life You Just Happens

I actually like jokes as well as things that are sort of fun.

Mitt Romney

Fun Jokes Things Well Like Sort

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

Judith Rossner

Time Book Husband Three Lucky First

Irrespective of who's up against me at tournaments, I have always relied completely on my own strengths to get as far as I can, and tried to adapt my game according to the match-situation.

Chen Long

Me Game I Can Adapt My Own Always

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

Brett Favre

Life Family Football Rest Thought

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

Arthur Henderson

Peace War People Civilization See