73 Quotes by Lee Scott

Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages.

So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.

Don't say it's because of benefits, because our benefits are good.

There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK.

The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.

We were devastated. We were asking him all the possibilities - was there anything at all that could be done? - and we said we would rather have a second opinion.