Arthur Blank Quotes

#1. It would not be until darkness had taken indisputable control over the land, until the flames of the bonfire created an unreal world of shadows, until tequila and mescal untied men from their somber selves.

Warren Eyster

#2. Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.

David Rockefeller

#3. A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.

Kenneth Langone

#4. You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.

Arthur Blank

#5. What men do not know about they take for granted. Knowledge furnishes problems, and the discovery of problems itself constitutes an intellectual advance.

Henry Hazlitt

#6. I've done a lot of work other than sci-fi, and between half-hour comedy, stage, and various movie roles, I've really tried to avoid being typecast.

Scott Bakula

#7. We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

Arthur Blank

#8. If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

Arthur Blank

#9. I tend to deal with most issues with humor ... always have and always will.

Gordon Gee

#10. Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#11. My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

Arthur Blank

#12. Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.

Arthur Blank

#13. My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.

Arthur Blank

#14. The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#15. We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live.

Arthur Blank

#16. Running is a gift I give myself almost daily. Even at days when everything seems to go wrong, I treat myself on the satisfaction of a lap of 30 to 40 minutes.

Arthur Blank

#17. An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

Arthur Lowe

#18. I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought.

Arthur Blank