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Sam Walton Quotes

I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Leadership People Me Speak Name You

I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people and the birth of Christianity.

History I Am People Student New Old

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.

Engineering Long You Apple Now Roof

I am committed to leveling the playing field and expanding opportunity to all.

Opportunity I Am Playing Committed

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

Work Key Doing Survival Down Matter

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

First Protector Root Tyrant He

Whenever I have too much downtime, I start to get sad.

Sad Start Too Much Get Much Too

I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.

Music Time Thinking Know Say Want

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life Sad History Man Suffering Find

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

Art Space People You Find Person

When I am writing, and occasionally achieve single focus and presence, I finally feel that is where I'm supposed to be. Everything else is kind of anxiety.

Focus I Am Writing Feel Anxiety

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

Beverly D'Angelo

Growth Think Acting Personal Ability

I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either.

Birthday People Night Feel Attention

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