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"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."

"You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only 'now' in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs!"

"While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!"
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"People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period."

"So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited."

"I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people."

"Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle."

"And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning."

"If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased."

"And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages."

"We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies."
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