Top 100 Quotes About Walton
#1. And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.
Donna Tartt
#2. Sam Walton said, 'It takes 20 years to be an overnight success.
Allan Branch
#5. What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed.
Jack Welch
#6. A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.
Leigh Hunt
#7. The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.
Annie Fellows Johnston
#8. For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .
Arthur Ransome
#9. Take my advice, my dear Mr Walton, and don't make too much of your poor, or they'll soon be too much for you to manage. - Come, Pet: it's time to go home to lunch. - And for the surplice, take your own way and wear it. I shan't say anything more about it.
George MacDonald
#10. Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.
Michael Bergdahl
#11. 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
#12. There is an iron "scold's bridle" in Walton Church. They used these things in ancient days for curbing women's tongues. They have given up the attempt now. I suppose iron was getting scarce, and nothing else would be strong enough.
Jerome K. Jerome
#13. And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Lord Byron
#14. I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block.
Will Chase
#15. I was talking to Coach Wooden after I had signed at UCLA and over the summer, and we used to talk all the time. The thing is, talking to Bill Walton, once you throw in your two cents, he throws in the other 98 cents. He will not stop talking, I'll tell you what.
Kevin Love
#16. Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#17. Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.
Michael Bergdahl
#18. Effective leaders....always rise to a challenge. That's one of the things that separates winners from whiners.....Walton rose above it by solving his problems with creativity and tenacity.
Anyone who expects the road to be easy will continually find himself in trouble.
John C. Maxwell
#19. At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
Michael Bergdahl
#20. As the writings of Walton and others suggest, many evangelicals view the requirements of U.S. national security in the here-and-now and the final accomplishment of Christ's saving mission at the end of time as closely related if not indistinguishable.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#21. If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart.
Bernie Sanders
#22. Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
Tadashi Yanai
#23. Wal-Mart, we've been known for many years - back to the days of when Sam Walton started the company - we've been known for basics. The basic need of families and people across America. Wal-Mart was known as the place for basics.
Mike Duke
#24. Lucas George (Walton) (b.1944), American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the science-fiction film Star Wars (1977),
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#25. At Wal-Mart, it goes back to Sam Walton and the foundation and business model that we simply operate for less, or everyday low cost. We're known for operating in a very efficient way and then giving those savings to customers.
Mike Duke
#26. me, "You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes. I had determined, once, that the memory of these evils should die with me; but you have won me to alter my determination.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#27. You could make any man forget his years. When I saw you arrive in your lovely dress, I was conquered. If you don't wish to dance anymore perhaps we could chat?
- David Walton
Barry Gray
#28. Bill Walton is incredible. If you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture.
Stan Albeck
#29. Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
Michael Bergdahl
#30. I'm sorry about what you've had to live through," Dr. Walton said quietly. "But we're here to help you overcome your past. We're here to help you live." (260)
Kit Castle
#31. Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.
Michael Bergdahl
#32. At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.
David Walton
#33. I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
Jo Walton
#34. A well crafted life is like a good poem. What is left out tells others every bit as much about you as what is added in.
Eric Vance Walton
#35. Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
Sam Walton
#36. I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
Walton Goggins
#38. Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.
Sam Walton
#39. Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.
Izaak Walton
#40. Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
Sam Walton
#41. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
Sam Walton
#42. It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Sam Walton
#43. The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.
Jo Walton
#44. Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture.
John H. Walton
#46. I'm trying to think how I impressed my wife. We had an on-stage kiss, and I really went for it. Because I liked her. Usually you can get away with it being just technical, but it was a problem when I ended up kissing my wife on the set. I'd say I stopped acting and kissed her on set.
David Walton
#47. It's funny how when your kids get sick, they get even cuter when they have a stuffed nose and they mouth breathe.
David Walton
#49. Gabe pulled her closer. You just lean on me, Vivi. I'll keep us both upright for a while.
Leslye Walton
#50. Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.
Nancy Bird Walton
#51. It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.
Rob Walton
#52. I still don't know if you understand!" "That everyone is of equal significance and that the differences between individuals are more important than the differences between broad classes? Oh yes, I'm coming to understand that really well." I
Jo Walton
#53. If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going ... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.
Rob Walton
#54. Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
Sam Walton
#55. Why would you be given wings if you weren't meant to fly?
Leslye Walton
#56. There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.
Jo Walton
#57. There's only one force that's strong enough to conquer those in Witch House, and you know how to manipulate it; you turned one current off and the other on. It was the very best kind of distraction."
He said, "Love always is.
Evangeline Walton
#58. Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
Sam Walton
#60. Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open.
Jo Walton
#61. if there are books perhaps it won't be all that bad.
Jo Walton
#62. In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
Bill Walton
#63. To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.
Karen Walton
#64. We're all working together; that's the secret.
Sam Walton
#65. Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.
Rob Walton
#66. I lived in Koreatown for five years, and I lived blocks away from about seven karaoke bars.
David Walton
#68. You can go to a history class with one teacher and want to stick a pencil in your throat, and then go to another teacher who is able to contextualize it or deliver the message in a way that you're riveted.
Walton Goggins
#69. Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage.
Leslye Walton
#70. That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
Izaak Walton
#71. A rose, with the motto Dum spiro spero, which actually I rather like - while I breathe I shall hope.
Jo Walton
#72. There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
Sam Walton
#73. I'm not jaded yet. I'm still at the point where, if someone comes up to me with great energy, I'm happy to meet them.
David Walton
#74. Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
Walton Goggins
#75. I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.
Walton Goggins
#76. I really enjoy what I do, and I'm very grateful to be given an opportunity to do it. That's one thing that people can say about me.
Walton Goggins
#77. Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton
#78. Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.
Jo Walton
#79. There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.
Jo Walton
#80. There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.
John T. Walton
#81. My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around ... or has allowed ME to change my life around.
Rob Walton
#82. Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
Sam Walton
#83. Faith is the womb in which all worthwhile and spectacular things have ever been born.
Eric Vance Walton
#84. His heart line was long and curved, and she traced it with her eyes over and over again. A person with a curved heart line was a person capable of great warmth and kindness, a person willing to give their whole selves to love, no matter the cost.
Leslye Walton
#85. Yet I felt he was innocent in a way I was not, that I knew more about evil than he ever could, because he had parents who loved him and wanted the best for him, while I had grown up with Mummy.
Jo Walton
#86. She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.
Leslye Walton
#87. It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
Helen Walton
#88. I wonder why I haven't seen that before."
"Maybe you just needed someone to help you see the parts that aren't so obvious.
Leslye Walton
#89. What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be my friend, and why couldn't we have sex as well if we wanted to? (And used contraception.)
Jo Walton
#90. One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.
Jo Walton
#91. I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.
Jim Walton
#92. I think, just the exhilaration of flying. The freedom of the air. The freedom of flight. And you completely remove yourself from the world. And you can voluntarily remove yourself from all those ... everything that's near and dear to you. And you voluntarily return.
Nancy Bird Walton
#93. What made him imagine he could have a dialogue with them?" "He's Sokrates," I said. "He's like a two-year-old sticking pencils in his ear," she said.
Jo Walton
#94. It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really speaks exactly what they're feeling.
David Walton
#95. Books as objects are not what books are, it's not what's important about them
Jo Walton
#96. Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Sam Walton
#97. Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.
David Walton
#99. I wanted you, precious reader, to feel the pain of the bullied, the neglected, the heartbroken, and the humiliated.
K.M. Walton
#100. I acknowledged Gabe and his attempts at flight the way a legless child might view a hopeful but misguided parent buying a house full of stairs. After a while, when Gabe offered me a morning greeting, it didn't feel like he was greeting me but rather a giant pair of wings; no girl, just feathers.
Leslye Walton
