It's interesting: the letters I get from mayors that want Wal-Mart to look and invest in their community.

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• Mike Duke:

  I do spend really focused time with my wife, my kids, grandkids, and so when I'm doing something or

• Mike Duke:

  At Wal-Mart, it goes back to Sam Walton and the foundation and business model that we simply operat

• Mike Duke:

  Someone asked me about what's it like managing 2.2 million associates, and I said, 'When they're Wa

• Mike Duke:

  I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a pe

• Mike Duke:

  I probably went into sports with a sense of competitiveness and came out of it even more competitiv

• Mike Duke:

  I actually think it's better I started by being close to customers. That foundation early on helped

• Mike Duke:

  I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist.

• Tom Waits:

  The piano has been drinking, not me.

• Tom Waits:

  The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

• Tom Waits:

  I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.