Edward Lampert quotes

“To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowes, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.”
-- Edward Lampert

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“If we put a product into Sears, we don't want to have to pull it out in a year, or two years, or three years. We don't want to do that only to have it yanked away.”
-- Edward Lampert

Source : "Sears Chairman Sounds Off Against Martha Stewart" by Ira Teinowitz, adage.com. April 13, 2006.

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“The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy,”
-- Edward Lampert

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“I want to be known as a great businessman,”
-- Edward Lampert

Source : "Eddie Lampert: The best investor of his generation" by Patricia Sellers, money.cnn.com. February 6, 2006.

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“This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, "Here's what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?"”
-- Edward Lampert

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“No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.”

Source : A. C. Green (1994). “Victory”, Creation House

“Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.”

“But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.”

“I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.”

“Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.”

Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.

“And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.”

“My car's my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We're in the most comfortable seats because we're not facing each other, but sitting side by side. We don't look at each other, but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult. Nobody serves anybody. And many other aspects. One most important thing is that it transports us from one place to another.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

“Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.”

“But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.”

“Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.”