Bernard Marcus Quotes

#1. People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.

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#2. I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.

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#3. I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

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#4. Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.

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#5. One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.

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#6. As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that's unique and that's not Arthur's fault. It's not a flaw of Arthur's. It's a flaw of these two guys.

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#7. We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don't want to weaken the link in shoppers' minds between Home Depot and do-it-yourself projects.

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#8. Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

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#9. When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

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