Quotes About Partnership

There is one more aspect to a true partnership that's worth mentioning: executives who hold themselves aloof from their associates, who won't listen to their associates when they have a problem, can never be true partners with them.

If I'm going to fly around all over the country telling these folks they're my partners, I sure owe it to them to at least hear them out when they're upset about something.

What has carried this company so far so fast is the relationship that we, the managers, have been able to enjoy with our associates. By "associates" we mean those employees out in the stores and in the distribution centers and on the trucks who generally earn an hourly wage for all their hard work. Our relationship with the associates is a partnership in the truest sense.

Our message became "Sure, we are a nonunion company, but we think we are stronger because of it. And because you are our partner, we have an open door, and we listen to you, and together we can work out our problems.

Nobody wanted to gamble on that first Wal-Mart. I think Bud put in 3 percent, and Don Whitaker—whom I had hired to manage the store from a TG&Y store out in Abilene, Texas—put in 2 percent, and I had to put up 95 percent of the dollars. Helen had to sign all the notes along with me, and her statement allowed us to borrow more than I could have alone. We pledged houses and property, everything we had. But in those days we were always borrowed to the hilt.

RULE 2: SHARE your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations. Remain a corporation and retain control if you like, but behave as a servant leader in a partnership. Encourage your associates to hold a stake in the company. Offer discounted stock, and grant them stock for their retirement. It's the single best thing we ever did.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much; at Wal-Mart, everything we've done has been the result of people pulling together to meet one common goal—teamwork—something I also picked up at an early age.

The best thing for a bachelor is to get a wife who will really cooperate in the great work.

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship

I must learn to be obedient. How fortunate I am to have a husband who helps me.

Our enemy is the only partner we have.

I think she loves him, Lia said. And love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you Love is an excuse to put up with shit that you shouldn't,I replied.

May you always have the answers to each other's most important questions.

El amor es aguantar malas cualidades de alguien, por que de alguna manera, te completa. -Lissa

her horse, Basil.

I discovered, however, in the early days of our marriage that, in having her way, she put my interests ahead of her own.

Just one right friend in your life could introduce you to an uncommon business, marriage, or health relationship you never dreamt of. We call this the gateway of friendship.

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

It's important to marry someone you love, but it's also important to marry someone you like. In other words, you like being together, you like to do the same things, you like each other. You're friends! Romance may have ups and downs, but friendship endures.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss—you can't do it alone.

The best people to collaborate with will not only be people who have a diverse background, it will also be those who have the strengths that you lack.

There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to remedy the flaws in one's nature.

Men and men, men and women, whatever the permutation, in the end one partner usually feels more than the other and that partner usually suffers for it.

Do you Barble take this Daily Alice to be your awful wedded life for bed or for worse insidious in stealth for which or for poor or to have unto whole until death you do part?