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“He proved that people can be motivated. The mountain is there, but somebody else has already climbed it.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“I guess his vindication had to be the day in 1989 when he walked into a Kmart in Illinois and found that they had installed people greeters at their front doors.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“could a Wal-Mart-type story still occur in this day and age? My answer is of course it could happen again. Somewhere out there right now there’s someone—probably hundreds of thousands of someones—with good enough ideas to go all the way.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“and the chewing and swallowing imbue me with an unadulterated sense of donkey delight.”
― Mo Yan, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

“It’s as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Trump’s first budget eliminated ARPA-E altogether. It also eliminated the spectacularly successful $70 billion loan program. It cut funding to the national labs in a way that implies the laying off of six thousand of their people. It eliminated all research on climate change. It halved the funding for work to secure the electrical grid from attack or natural disaster.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy