Lee Scott Quotes (59 Quotes)

The soaring cost of health care in America cannot be sustained over the long term by any business that offers health benefits to its employees.

Our size causes us, when we do something inappropriate, which is usually done out of stupidity, to come across as being done out of arrogance.

Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.

The customers want those Supercenters.

The planned square footage growth for the coming year represents approximately 46 million square feet of new retail space, which will be the largest square footage increase in the company's history and a 9 percent increase over the fiscal 2002 total,

We have allowed to exist the idea that only the poorest Americans shop at Wal-Mart. Shame on us. We have people from all walks of life who shop at Wal-Mart stores.

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

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.

If anything, the negative press and the criticism take away the opportunity to feel as good as you can feel about your employment.