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Sam Walton Quotes

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Ideas Someone Take Us Most

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

John F. Kennedy

Friend Time Peace War Generation Go

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

Learn Comedy Go Sketch Never Improv

What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die - and humans notice? We live, increasingly, at a time when extinctions are recorded, remembered, and the last animal (or plant) in its line, by virtue of its being last, becomes a kind of celebrity. Its finality becomes a thing to honor.

Robert Krulwich

Live Time Animal Plant Honor Die

The more challenges that are thrown at you, the more reward there is on the other side because you surprise yourself and say, 'Wow, these are things I didn't realize I was capable of.'

Yourself Challenges Surprise Reward

At the age that I was when I stopped reading comics, and with a set of talents that would seem to mark a future comic-book auteur, my son has had only a passing enthusiasm for the medium.

Future Son Age Reading Enthusiasm

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.

Day Progress Delay Lack Another

To be honest, I am a really simple person, and most of my friends are not from the industry. I am most comfortable with them. They don't treat me as an actor, and neither would they tolerate me behaving like one.

Simple I Am Me Treat Friends Person

That's why I make mixtapes. That's why I work with Don Cannon; that's why i work with Big Sean. Even though I don't rap, I got love and acceptance in that community, and that's something that I really take seriously and hold close to my heart.

Work Love Community Heart Acceptance

I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?

Achievement Award First Excited Well

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Value Sorry Seeing Selfishness Act

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

Children Time Decision College Never

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

Wealth Never Chief Thing

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