Top 100 Quotes About Mart
#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
#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
#3. The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.
Joel Salatin
#4. If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
Carlos Slim
#5. Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.
Garrison Keillor
#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
#7. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]
John F. Kennedy
#8. I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.
Viola Davis
#9. 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
#10. I don't see anything Wal-Mart can do that other retailers can't.
Sergey Galitsky
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.
Michael Bergdahl
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Merciless Mart, with its grand lobby. I glimpse the Abnegation
Veronica Roth
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.
Amanda Hocking
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.
Michael Bergdahl
#37. Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.
Bill Vaughan
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
Steve Earle
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.
Jaron Lanier
#47. 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
#48. If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.
Simon Sinek
#49. 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
#50. Laundromat, mini-mart, nail salon, pet shop, Books of Darkness.
Michelle Knudsen
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.
Richard Roeper
#58. While modern evangelical Christianity has undeniable historical roots, its explosion over the past thirty years is a triumph of the Gospel According to Wal-Mart.
Charles P. Pierce
#59. Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
Paris Hilton
#60. It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
Sam Walton
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. A new poll reveals that 56% of Americans believe that Wal-Mart is bad for the country, while the other 44% work there.
Amy Poehler
#64. Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.
Michael Bergdahl
#65. Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.
Charles Platt
#66. More and more, more and more digital, in particular, I think you'll see in our stores next year, as we start combining these digital products and they interface with each other, you'll see that represented in Wal-Mart.
Lee Scott
#67. I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
Garth Brooks
#68. I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.
Lee Scott
#69. Yes, I'm too mad to punish you right now. We'll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart.
Ilona Andrews
#70. Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?
John Sweeney
#71. Attention, shoppers! Discount specials on Harry Dresden's life. Slightly used, no refunds, limit one per customer. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.
Jim Butcher
#72. If I spend all of my day in the details as a CEO of a company like Wal-Mart, I think it would be trouble, because I wouldn't really be prepared to speak to the big issues that the country or the world should face.
Mike Duke
#74. To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.
Joel Miller
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. When a state trooper passes me on the highway, I grit my teeth, check my speed, and hope nobody put a dead guy in the trunk while I was in Wal-Mart last night at two a.m.
Diana Joseph
#78. For all the folks whose job it was to be ready for [Hurricane] Katrina, but who weren't, from the Oval Office, right down the chain of command to the New Orleans police department, Wal-Mart was a vivid reproach.
Charles Fishman
#79. Given a choice between death and the Buford Zippy Mart, Nico would've had a tough time deciding. At least he knew his way around the Land of the Dead. Plus the food was fresher.
Rick Riordan
#80. 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
#81. You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.
Arthur Laffer
#82. I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.
Taylor Swift
#83. The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to whom who bids the highest in the currency of our desires.
H. Rider Haggard
#84. Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left.
Charles Fishman
#85. My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.
Marco Rubio
#86. Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wall Mart Street
Jay Leno
#87. Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'
Bill Dedman
#88. I was at the Wal-Mart, which is where I think everybody goes eventually. If they die without Christ.
Emo Philips
#89. I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
Sam Walton
#90. Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'
Alex Berenson
#91. I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc.
Gary Paulsen
#92. I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.
Mike Duke
#93. The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.
William Blake
#94. It's interesting: the letters I get from mayors that want Wal-Mart to look and invest in their community.
Mike Duke
#95. Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.
Andy Stern
#96. 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
#97. Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.
Michael Bergdahl
#98. 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
#99. I went to the WAL mart last night, but they were all out of you!
The Lexies
#100. Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.
Sheryl Crow
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