Walmart has been a cornerstone of the retail industry for decades, offering everything from groceries to electronics, and making it a one-stop shop for millions of people around the world. Over the years, Walmart has garnered a range of quotes, both inspiring and humorous, from employees, customers, and even industry experts. These "Walmart Quotes" capture the essence of the brand and its impact on society.
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I don't give a damn if it's a hustle that's already big or you go to work at Kroger every day, the grocery store. Or you work at Walmart. You work, so I respect you. You don't work, what can we do? We can't relate.
Young Dolph
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Hillary Clinton is not strongly identified with reforming the industrial food system. The Clintons were involved with Walmart and Tyson in Arkansas. Though as a senator, Hillary was pretty good at reaching out to the small farmers in Upstate New York.
Michael Pollan
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It's crazy to me that in this world of electronic medical records Walmart has so much information about how we shop, but no one has that information about our health. Why can't my doctor say, 'Wow, Anne, based on your lifestyle and behavior, you're five years from being diabetic.' But I can go to Target, and they know exactly what I'm going to buy.
Anne Wojcicki
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My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.
Marco Rubio
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I got tired of walking through Durham with people screaming 'Carolina' at me when I walk through Walmart and stuff like that.
Rodney Hood
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Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.
Marissa Mayer
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More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
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We see great growth in the United States. But also in China, Brazil, the U.K., and other markets around the world. So ecommerce is going to continue to be a great story for Walmart.
Mike Duke
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Walmart isn't your average mom-and-pop operation. It's the largest employer in America. As such, it's the trendsetter for millions of other employers of low-wage workers.
Robert Reich
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Although the flagship brand, Pepsi-Cola, has always been second to Coca-Cola, the Frito-Lay division is ten times larger than its largest competitor, Diamond Foods, Inc., of San Francisco. Its products take up whole aisles at Walmart.
John Seabrook
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America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.
George Packer
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Together, Apple and Walmart represent the intense separation of American life into blue and red, rich and poor, overpriced and undersold, hyperconnected and left behind.
George Packer
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I said the only way I would join Pets.com was if I could get Amazon to invest, and I did. I knew that anything that could be sourced externally, Amazon could do better and cheaper than anyone else except Walmart. It was really obvious to me.
Julie Wainwright
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We built Bonobos, with more than a few dozen customers and counting, and the industry we were disrupting didn't seem to care. Then we 'sold out' to Walmart. Abracadabra. The red carpet rolled open.
Andy Dunn
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A lot of things have changed since the days of Flickr. Facebook has concentrated the sociality of the Internet within its blue borders, like a Walmart siphoning off the mom-and-pop shops that formerly comprised the Internet's gathering places. Communication, in the age of mobile dominance, has become, of necessity, shorter and snack-sized.
Caterina Fake
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I work really hard to portray things that you're not going to see at Walmart.
Shawn Crahan
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Walmart markets its gun department as 'sports and outdoors,' but let us get one thing straight: They are not just selling hunting rifles.
Letitia James
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I think among a lot of American families who see Walmart as one of their brands and it may be the best thing in town, they may not have any options whether they want to boycott or not.
Shannon Bream
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Walmart is not arrogant. We could go away at any minute. I think most of us act that way every day. If you're not willing to fail - and we are failing at some things - you're going to go away.
Doug McMillon
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The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.
Alan Jackson
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Nobody is convinced that Johnny Depp goes to Walmart dressed as Sweeney Todd, but everyone expects us to.
Andy Biersack
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There is no earthly reason why Walmart and McDonald's and Walgreens and these other giant, profitable institutions should have one worker in need of public assistance. It's ridiculous.
Nick Hanauer
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You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.
Bill Cosby
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I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walmart.'
Benny Blanco
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Walmart is committed to fighting hunger in America every day.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
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I think every responsible public board at every board meeting should be discussing succession. And, of course, Walmart has a very mature board: our chairman Rob Walton and other members. So succession is an ongoing. I think when I first joined the board of directors, it was discussed then. And it's discussed at every board meeting continually.
Mike Duke
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I'm still very bullish on emerging markets. There's an emerging middle class. They're a growing group of customers. And frankly, they want Walmart. They want everyday low price. And that's why we are continuing to grow in the emerging markets around the world, too.
Mike Duke
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Walmart is so huge that a wage boost at Walmart would ripple through the entire economy, putting more money in the pockets of low-wage workers. This would help boost the entire economy - including Walmart's own sales.
Robert Reich
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Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald's or Walmart, 'How many jobs do you have?' and likely he or she will tell you: 'Two.' I know colleagues who've had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them.
Donna Brazile
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Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company came to dominate both consumer spending and employment in small towns and rural areas across the middle of the country.
George Packer
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I get up in the morning. I usually do a radio interview early in the morning. I usually do a book signing, because I'm also a cookbook author, so I'm at some store, at a Walmart or a Williams Sonoma, for three hours, standing up, signing autographs, and taking pictures for three hours.
Trisha Yearwood
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Cameras can look down from on high and predict crop yields, traffic in Walmart parking lots, and travel patterns on Labor Day weekend. On the ground, they form the foundation of autonomous-driving systems.
Om Malik
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The first time I got locked up, I was in Walmart stealing BB guns.
PnB Rock
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Walmart has stores in almost every city in North America. When they go to same-day delivery, they don't have to build warehouses across North America like Amazon has to do. It is so much cheaper for Walmart to use existing stores as distribution centers.
John Layfield
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New York City must divest the hundreds of millions of dollars we have invested in Walmart for far too long, dollars that are only fueling violence and undermining the greater public interest. Once our nation's largest city does so, I know other states and municipalities will follow suit.
Letitia James
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My mum was working in Walmart for €350 per month, about £280. My father was working as a house painter. We had a difficult situation with money.
Dejan Lovren
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My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up in my room, and I was just trying to figure out how to play the guitar and put words with what I was learning.
Morgan Wallen
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Respect for the individual is one of our core beliefs at Walmart.
Doug McMillon
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I'm getting a bunch more face tattoos, because it doesn't look like I'm ever going to have to apply to a Walmart or Best Buy.
Al Jourgensen
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White male privilege remains alive in America, but the phrase would seem odd, if not infuriating, to a sixty-year-old man working as a Walmart greeter in southern Ohio.
George Packer
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The world is a better place with Walmart in it.
Doug McMillon
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We've done both. We can do both. We can raise the quality and still have Walmart prices.
Mike Duke
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When I joined Walmart, I just had a team mindset, but I look back on it now, and I realize some of those early jobs I had, I was trying to help other people and rally the team. It ended up people started looking at me as a leader.
Doug McMillon
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I tell you, Bono may have a point. South Africa needs a Walmart.
Rush Limbaugh
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At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation's youth.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
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Walmart and other big-boxers could become the center of gravity for the conservation of goods, employ people with actual know-how, and develop deeper, longer term, more profitable relationships with their customers.
Lisa Gansky
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I worked at a McDonald's inside a Walmart. It wasn't even a real McDonald's.
Riki Lindhome
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The hollowing out of the heartland was good for Walmart's bottom line: its slogan might have been an amoral maxim attributed to Lenin - 'The worse, the better.'
George Packer
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Sometimes I feel like women of the world who are single moms and are working in Walmart are the strongest women out there, and that's what's really exciting to me is being all these different types of women.
Cobie Smulders
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A number of major companies - from PepsiCo to Walmart to U.P.S. - have recognized that corporations have a responsibility to address the causes of climate change before it is too late. We do not have to wait for an international treaty or new regulations to act.
Joe Kaeser
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It was honestly like 'Annie.' One day I was alone in a cold, dark Eastern European orphanage, and then the next day I was in an enchanted, mystical land known as Walmart.
Oksana Masters
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I believe that if we are going to create jobs in this country, then let's create jobs that will absolutely put the working-class people at work to the point where they have one job. They don't have to work three because they have to work Wendy's, McDonald's, and Walmart to survive.
Richard Ojeda
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Walmart is going to be very good at this e-commerce game.
John Layfield
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I can walk into Walmart in California and not really get mentioned for being a football player.
Kenny Stills
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There are many different artforms that are just being lost because the whole digital revolution has homogenized everything, turned it all into Walmart.
Jim Root
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My first job with Walmart was unloading trucks in a warehouse. Then I worked as an assistant manager in a store, and I was lucky enough to get into our buyer-training program. I loved merchandising and had a career path that led me through Sam's Club and Walmart International.
Doug McMillon
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We want everyone at Walmart to feel comfortable coming to work.
Doug McMillon
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Walmart was built on the idea that we could give our customers access to the items they need every day at the lowest prices by eliminating waste and managing our expenses better than the competition.
Doug McMillon
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Low prices at Walmart are a given. Customers almost take that for granted. But they also want to save time, and that goal is increasing in importance relative to just saving money.
Doug McMillon
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We want everybody to feel comfortable shopping at Walmart.
Doug McMillon
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We compete with very large companies. These are companies like Walmart and Target and Kroger and some very successful digital companies like eBay and Etsy and Wayfair, and we don't have the ability to raise prices in any kind of unfettered way.
Andy Jassy
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Customers want a broad assortment, especially with e-commerce. If you pull up your mobile app to look for something at Walmart, we want you to be able to find it.
Doug McMillon
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If people want to wear a mask into a Walmart or into a restaurant or into any other business - not only should they be allowed to do so; in many instances, they ought to be credited for doing so.
Tate Reeves
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India is an important part of the Walmart story.
Doug McMillon
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My mom worked at Walmart for 33 years straight. Thirty-three years! Day in and day out.
A. J. Green
These Walmart quotes offer a glimpse into the company’s culture, philosophy, and the way it has influenced millions of people worldwide. Whether it’s through Sam Walton’s vision, the dedication of its employees, or the customers who rely on its low prices and convenience, Walmart has left a lasting imprint on the retail industry. The next time you shop at Walmart, remember these quotes and the powerful legacy behind them.
As Olivia Williams, a dedicated contributor at thetopquote.com, I bring a unique blend of passion and expertise to the art of quotation curation. My journey in journalism and creative writing has equipped me with the discerning eye necessary to select quotes that are not only thought-provoking but also deeply meaningful. I am committed to sharing wisdom that resonates with our readers, helping them find inspiration and insight in every phrase.
