H. Lee Scott, Jr. quotes

“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.”
-- H. Lee Scott, Jr.

Source : "Wal-Mart Strikes Back". "Your World with Neil Cavuto", www.foxnews.com. January 13, 2005.

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“Where but in the very ***** of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through”

“In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might”

Source : Pat Parker (1999). “An Expanded Edition of Movement in Black”

“Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.”

“Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.”

“What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it.”

“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.”

“I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

“Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?”

“Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness”

“For what level of mediocrity will you settle?”