Rob Walton Quotes (38 Quotes)

Our family remains committed to the ongoing growth and improvement of Wal-Mart, and to representing the interests of all shareholders. Jim brings broad business experience and perspective to our board, and also brings a deep appreciation for the Wal-Mart culture and the importance of sustaining that culture throughout the company.

Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

I've been in therapy now for four years.

That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.

Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

The people that control the money, chose the candidates, back the candidates so they can run and that's who you're given as a choice.

If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy.

If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.

My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around... or has allowed ME to change my life around.

If you look in sports history, there's clubs that's had some clubs' number. They've had our number for sure. We've played a couple games well there at Arkansas and won but here we haven't been able to put anything together.

I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money.

First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract.

If you don't have something out the following month, people tend to forget about you. So I needed something out the following year.

Marvel has put out good product. DC has put out good product. Even Image has put out good product, as far as I'm concerned... although it's few and far between. But it's not getting recognized, no matter who's doing it.

On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops.

Since I was interested in comic books, I got a job working at the Silver Snail comic book shop here in Toronto which I suppose a lot of people do.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

Paul and Jose are rotating off as part of our normal governance guidelines relating to the service of our outside directors. John chose not to stand for re-election in order to focus his attention on his duties as lead director of Delphi.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

I've done work for hire. I've worked for DC and Dark Horse.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

My main point is to entertain in a way that is unique and different from what anybody else id doing; to apply my voice in a way that nobody else in the industry is applying theirs.

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.

I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.

If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army.

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.