Bernard Marcus famous quotes

One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.
-- Bernard Marcus

#Educational #Home #Successful

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.
-- Bernard Marcus

#Wanted #Understood

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.
-- Bernard Marcus

#Use #Dinosaurs #Mail

I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.
-- Bernard Marcus

#Charity #Active

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.
-- Bernard Marcus

#Hero #Kids #Yesterday

Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.
-- Bernard Marcus

#Impact #Race #Medicine

People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.
-- Bernard Marcus

#Believe #People #Track

We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don't want to weaken the link in shoppers' minds between Home Depot and do-it-yourself projects.
-- Bernard Marcus

#Home #America #Mind

As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that's unique and that's not Arthur's fault. It's not a flaw of Arthur's. It's a flaw of these two guys.
-- Bernard Marcus

#Unique #Two #People

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.

I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...