Walton Simons Quotes

I watched mesmerized as Sloane Walton made a snow angel. I pressed my palm to the cool glass. Take care of my girls. I heard Simon’s words as clearly as if he’d spoken them aloud. It wasn’t his fault. He didn’t know the effect his daughter had on me. How dangerous she was to me. How fatal I could be to her.

Shakespeare was not even able to perform a function that we consider today as perfectly normal and ordinary a function as reading itself. He could not, as the saying goes, “look something up.” Indeed the very phrase—when it is used in the sense of “searching for something in a dictionary or encyclopedia or other book of reference”—simply did not exist. It does not appear in the English language, in fact, until as late as 1692, when an Oxford historian named Anthony Wood used it. Since there was no such phrase until the late seventeenth century, it follows that there was essentially no such concept either, certainly not at the time when Shakespeare was writing—a time when writers were writing furiously, and thinkers thinking as they rarely had before. Despite all the intellectual activity of the time there was in print no guide to the tongue, no linguistic vade mecum, no single book that Shakespeare or Martin Frobisher, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Izaak Walton, or any of their other learned contemporaries could consult.

Celebra tus éxitos —decía Walton—. Encuentra algo de humor en tus fracasos. No te tomes a ti mismo demasiado en serio. Relájate, y todos los que te rodean se relajarán.»76 En lugar de admitir que las cosas ya no son como acostumbraban ser, Wal-Mart ha hecho lo contrario.

Wal-Mart jamás sufrió una grieta mientras estuvo bajo el mando de Walton, porque este jamás se olvidó de dónde venía. «Sigo sin poder creerme que sea noticia que me corte el pelo en la peluquería. ¿En qué otro sitió iba a cortármelo? —decía—. ¿Que por qué conduzco una camioneta? ¿En qué se supone que tengo que sacar a pasear a mis perros, en un Rolls-Royce?»95 Vestido a menudo con su característica chaqueta de tweed y una gorra de camionero, Walton era la encarnación de aquellos a quienes trataba de servir: el estadounidense de la calle.

do anything stupid?” he asked. “I won’t,” she said softly. Mike knew that tone of voice well. He had heard it many times in the past while interrogating suspects who had lost their will to fight. He let her go. She turned fully around and looked at him. She didn’t say anything, but Mike could see that she was grateful for

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A computer can tell you down to the dime what you’ve sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold,” said Walton.

Despite all the intellectual activity of the time there was in print no guide to the tongue, no linguistic vade mecum, no single book that Shakespeare or Martin Frobisher, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Izaak Walton, or any of their other learned contemporaries could consult.

For Sam Walton, there was something else, a deeper purpose, cause or belief that drove him. More than anything else, Walton believed in people. He believed that if he looked after people, people would look after him. The more Wal-Mart could give to employees, customers and the community, the more that employees, customers and the community would give back to Wal-Mart. “We’re all working together; that’s the secret,” said Walton.

Look after people and people will look after you was his belief, and everything Walton and Wal-Mart did proved it.

so did Wal-Mart remember Sam Walton and his WHY for a short time after he died. But as the WHY started to get fuzzier and fuzzier, the company changed direction. From then on, there would be a new motivation at the company, and it was something that Walton himself cautioned against: chasing money.