Edward Lampert quotes
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“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.”
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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 LampertSource : "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,”
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“I want to be known as a great businessman,”
-- Edward LampertSource : "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
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“Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.”
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Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.
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Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.
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“Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.”
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