Top 100 Mart's Quotes

#1. There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.

Leo Hindery

Mart's Quotes #932
#2. I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those places. It was terrible.

Anna Nicole Smith

Mart's Quotes #5333
#3. The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.

Joel Salatin

Mart's Quotes #7196
#4. If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

Carlos Slim

Mart's Quotes #12767
#5. Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

Garrison Keillor

Mart's Quotes #59077
#6. God, what a world, if men in street and mart felt that same kinship of the human heart which makes them, in the face of fire and flood, rise to the meaning of true brotherhood.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Mart's Quotes #70585
#7. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]

John F. Kennedy

Mart's Quotes #77226
#8. I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

Viola Davis

Mart's Quotes #82163
#9. In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man.

Mart Crowley

Mart's Quotes #90032
#10. My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.

Josh Turner

Mart's Quotes #90812
#11. I don't see anything Wal-Mart can do that other retailers can't.

Sergey Galitsky

Mart's Quotes #111161
#12. Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.

Adam McKay

Mart's Quotes #119599
#13. Corrupt judicial practices in Russia, America, China, Great Britain, and other countries only vary by a single degree: the cost of services.

Christopher Mart

Mart's Quotes #136909
#14. Magnificent phrases like 'inductive reactance' flow effortlessly from the lips of guys who can't cook hot dogs or find the flashing blue light in a K-Mart store.

Kenn Amdahl

Mart's Quotes #147187
#15. Calvin: Dad where do babies come from?
Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions.
Calvin: I came from Sears?
Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart - almost as good and a lot cheaper!

Bill Watterson

Mart's Quotes #172173
#16. Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

Michael Bergdahl

Mart's Quotes #172199
#17. Bigger brands like Shinola are capitalizing on what all of us small companies did. Shinola is just totally fake. It's a corporate entity that's taking advantage of what everybody else has done. They say it's all about made in U.S., but one Wal-Mart hires more employees than their whole company.

Mark McNairy

Mart's Quotes #174920
#18. The message from Wal-Mart today to the rest of the business community is there need not be any conflict between the environment and the economy. We will find the way not only to reconcile (those), but to find new profits and new opportunities as we do the right thing.

Al Gore

Mart's Quotes #180980
#19. My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

Vincent Gallo

Mart's Quotes #181372
#20. O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

Phoebe Cary

Mart's Quotes #185745
#21. In Los Angeles on Black Friday, a woman pepper sprayed Wal-Mart shoppers who tried to cut in line. The police acted fast by immediately hiring her to get rid of peaceful protesters outside banking institutions all across the United States.

Craig Ferguson

Mart's Quotes #186881
#22. Merciless Mart, with its grand lobby. I glimpse the Abnegation

Veronica Roth

Mart's Quotes #206682
#23. Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart.

Patricia Briggs

Mart's Quotes #213802
#24. So cotton growers, siphoning from the Ogallala, get three billion dollars a year in taxpayer money for fiber that is shipped to China, where it is used to make cheap clothing sold back to American chain retail stores like Wal-Mart.

Timothy Egan

Mart's Quotes #229887
#25. I think you'll see if you look at 'Up', we've focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor down) and have featured everything from Wal Mart workers, to on-the-ground organizers, to union presidents to restaurant workers sitting at the table sharing their experience and expertise.

Chris Hayes

Mart's Quotes #240312
#26. The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas.

Liza Featherstone

Mart's Quotes #256867
#27. Wal-Mart workers make just over $8 an hour, and they must pay more than a third of their health insurance premium if they choose to take the company's insurance. That means just about half of them don't choose to take the health insurance because they can't afford it.

Liza Featherstone

Mart's Quotes #257480
#28. For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

Amanda Hocking

Mart's Quotes #277674
#29. You can find a lot of reasonable buys at Wal-Mart. But one key to making it on a budget is by donating your time and labor to the project. Do-it-yourself projects will always help you save.

Nate Berkus

Mart's Quotes #295908
#30. It's through neglecting all other values to bring the customer the lowest price that Wal-Mart ended up with such a horrible sex discrimination problem, but that model produces lots and lots of other problems as well, which I think are possibly going to be more difficult to fix.

Liza Featherstone

Mart's Quotes #296429
#31. It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

Ben Folds

Mart's Quotes #315157
#32. I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Mart's Quotes #317374
#33. I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it ... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.

S. Robson Walton

Mart's Quotes #318990
#34. I really don't think anyone can blame us for wanting no part of the marriage mart if she is already the belle of the ball," Ella said. "My mother even had
the audacity to ask me earlier if I didn't think I should have a gown made like hers! Lord deliver me from the London season

Sarah MacLean

Mart's Quotes #326437
#35. I don't live with the 'right' people. I don't want to. I don't want to live with the rich in Beverly Hills or walk the streets of Hollywood. I want to go to K-mart and get good deals.

Dick Dale

Mart's Quotes #341256
#36. How many companies can say that the amount of customers who use their services second most often, and spend the second most amount of money with them, are "very negative"?

Charles Fishman

Mart's Quotes #347561
#37. At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like
like
"
"Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested.

Rick Riordan

Mart's Quotes #358260
#38. Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.

Eliot Spitzer

Mart's Quotes #358835
#39. We want clean air, clean water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world. Yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions.

Charles Fishman

Mart's Quotes #361006
#40. When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

Michael Bergdahl

Mart's Quotes #370124
#41. Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.

Bill Vaughan

Mart's Quotes #383139
#42. One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.

Lee Scott

Mart's Quotes #395676
#43. The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign: "Satisfaction Guaranteed." They're still up there, and they have made all the difference.

Sam Walton

Mart's Quotes #400886
#44. I had no agenda in writing this play except expressing myself ... It later occurred to me that I was not only announcing things to my family; I was announcing it to the world. Of course, if the play had been a flop, only my family would have known.

Mart Crowley

Mart's Quotes #402312
#45. Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

Hillary Clinton

Mart's Quotes #404444
#46. Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

James Howard Kunstler

Mart's Quotes #414238
#47. I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

Steve Earle

Mart's Quotes #431405
#48. Sometimes cheap is inexpensive. Sometimes it's cheap.

Charles Fishman

Mart's Quotes #443099
#49. Now you know how I justify my addictions - if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it.

Karen Marie Moning

Mart's Quotes #445706
#50. The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

Michael Bergdahl

Mart's Quotes #459730
#51. Who better than Wal-Mart, after all, to make a kilowatt of electricity go twice as far, or a gallon of fuel move our trucks move three times the distance?" -Wal-Mart ad

Charles Fishman

Mart's Quotes #462175
#52. Time is indeed the ultimate gift. It is not available for sale and there is never any extra, so it must be used with purpose before it runs out.

Christopher Mart

Mart's Quotes #462809
#53. Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.

Jaron Lanier

Mart's Quotes #468292
#54. Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a ballad monger who makes his living as a Wal-Mart greeter;

Scott Jonathan Nixon

Mart's Quotes #482723
#55. If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.

Simon Sinek

Mart's Quotes #490342
#56. I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting.

Jesse Plemons

Mart's Quotes #508987
#57. Laundromat, mini-mart, nail salon, pet shop, Books of Darkness.

Michelle Knudsen

Mart's Quotes #509039
#58. I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.

Angie Stone

Mart's Quotes #511194
#59. The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

Michael Bergdahl

Mart's Quotes #522571
#60. Do you know that men like you - relationship avoiders, are the type that typically fall the hardest?" "Did they teach you that at Wal-Mart?

Whitney Gracia Williams

Mart's Quotes #529401
#61. They had the lure of the Wal-Mart volume," [Jim] Wier said. "Once you get hooked on the volume, it's like getting hooked on cocaine. You've created a monster for yourself.

Charles Fishman

Mart's Quotes #533905
#62. Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to
avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness
to expand.

Mark Abley

Mart's Quotes #534594
#63. I sound like a damn commercial, but half the crap in this house is from Wal-mart. The big deal about Wal-mart is that its open 24 hours.

Corbin Bernsen

Mart's Quotes #535107
#64. It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.

Sam Walton

Mart's Quotes #569334
#65. Every time you see the Wal-Mart smiley face, whistling and knocking down the prices, somewhere there's a factory worker being kicked in the stomach. - Sherrie Ford

Charles Fishman

Mart's Quotes #572182
#66. To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowe's, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.

Edward Lampert

Mart's Quotes #574673
#67. Attention, shoppers! Discount specials on Harry Dresden's life. Slightly used, no refunds, limit one per customer. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.

Jim Butcher

Mart's Quotes #689792
#68. It's like, are you kidding me? I'd sell way more if I just put a picture of my face. That's the fact. I'd sell more copies of me just looking cute. That's what sells more. That's what sells at Wal-Mart. Not someone in a bathtub looking like they're about to kill someone. Topless.

Sky Ferreira

Mart's Quotes #770238
#69. A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.

Michael Moore

Mart's Quotes #793867
#70. Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart.

Conan O'Brien

Mart's Quotes #818107
#71. Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left.

Charles Fishman

Mart's Quotes #850519
#72. It's interesting: the letters I get from mayors that want Wal-Mart to look and invest in their community.

Mike Duke

Mart's Quotes #975204
#73. I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's 'Greatest Hits.' I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old.

Trent Reznor

Mart's Quotes #985434
#74. Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.

Michael Bergdahl

Mart's Quotes #993629
#75. There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door.

James Sinegal

Mart's Quotes #1037987
#76. A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.

Charles Platt

Mart's Quotes #1066622
#77. What's Walmart, do they sell like wall stuff?

Paris Hilton

Mart's Quotes #1080664
#78. You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

Tyler Perry

Mart's Quotes #1085981
#79. Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically.

Charlie Munger

Mart's Quotes #1125287
#80. What's Wal*Mart? Is that were they sell wall stuff?

Paris Hilton

Mart's Quotes #1132692
#81. I love Wal-mart! It's the only place in the world where I feel rich, beautiful and highly intelligent.

Angelina Assanti

Mart's Quotes #1136174
#82. A lot of people do comedy about India, but they're not from India. It's a Kwik-E-Mart perspective. I want to provide a genuine view and maybe one on how we see the West.

Vir Das

Mart's Quotes #1194945
#83. Wal-Mart's relationship to place has become so abstracted that the company views even its own stores through the conquistador's eyeglass. Like temporary forts built solely for purposes of territorial conquest, any one of them can be abandoned at any time.

Douglas Rushkoff

Mart's Quotes #1198755
#84. I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

James Sinegal

Mart's Quotes #1236442
#85. It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.

Sarah Dessen

Mart's Quotes #1360586
#86. You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.

Thomas Friedman

Mart's Quotes #1570484
#87. By late-2000 Wal-Mart's losses were running in excess of £150 million a year in Germany from its 95 stores, and the company was ranked bottom of all retailers in Germany in an annual customer satisfaction survey.

Nigel F. Piercy

Mart's Quotes #1591386
#88. It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

Marilyn Manson

Mart's Quotes #1596061
#89. Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart.

John Rzeznik

Mart's Quotes #1645381
#90. Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.

Timothy Noah

Mart's Quotes #1649591
#91. It's the place you would go if you wanted to buy a stereo system for under thirty-five dollars and didn't care if it sounded like the band was playing in a mailbox under water in a distant lake.

Bill Bryson

Mart's Quotes #1682481
#92. Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.

Marc Andreessen

Mart's Quotes #1690516
#93. I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

Andrew Young

Mart's Quotes #1701252
#94. There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK.

Lee Scott

Mart's Quotes #1713987
#95. -Hello, welcome to Wal-Mart.
Amanda lifted up her pink sunglasses to gape at the old guy in the requisite blue vest.
- Ohmigod, it's just like the commercial. If a smiling yellow dot bounces toward me, I'm going to freak out.

Erin McCarthy

Mart's Quotes #1734200
#96. Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.

Jerry Pate

Mart's Quotes #1744785
#97. The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mart's Quotes #1809899
#98. If one is of the masculine gender, a poodle is the insignia of one's deviation.

Mart Crowley

Mart's Quotes #1818022
#99. My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!

Jeff Foxworthy

Mart's Quotes #1837071
#100. After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

Sam Walton

Mart's Quotes #1864311

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