Patricia Edwards Quotations

People were crying - they couldn't believe that they had come so far. And the very first thing I did was to bring everybody downstairs into the basement so we could have a family prayer meeting.

If they promote this correctly, it could be huge.

There are so many moving parts right now. It's like watching someone walk through a bedroom in the dark. You're not sure if they're going to make it to the bathroom or stub their toe.

For the Wal-Mart audience, it's absolutely a factor. It is hurting a lot of people's back-to-school shopping.

The fact of the matter is that when you're doing what is essentially a turnaround and trying to get feet back under something, it doesn't always go that smoothly.

Wal-Mart has made no bones about being the place small-town America shops. They're looking to totally change that, and that's a tall order.

Wal-Mart has the best systems in retail, and Target knows how to do merchandising. So if Target's (merchandisers) started to go down to Wal-Mart, then I'd be scared.

I've been very impressed with the strides they have made, but I think that it's going to be a bumpy road for them in the next four or five quarters.

To skip straight over moderate and go directly to the low- end consumer doesn't make sense. It would be a tough sell for Kohl's to get him, let alone a Wal-Mart.

They take care of their people. And they expect their people to take care of their customers in response.

There?s not a lot out there that?s new.

This is certainly broadening it out and making high-end more accessible. It makes a lot of sense.

This is not going to hit Wal-Mart in the next quarter. It will be hanging out over it like the sword of Damocles.

If parents don't plant the crop, they won't reap the harvest,

Around here they like to mess with people.

Their target consumer is really feeling the effects of the higher gas prices.

The U.S. consumer right now is hungry for fashion that's new.

They have very slim margins already and I find it hard to believe that they're not going to have to step up and do more in terms of health care and that's going to affect their margins, and therefore their earnings.

The challenge they face is value. Upper-end consumers define value differently than a moderate-income shopper.

It started out running, galloping on fours like a dog, but when it dove I could see the arms come up. It was sizable, almost like a bear, but not a bear, not the way its arms moved.

It's a nice gesture and it will buy them positive publicity. If this gives them the ability to build stores in Maryland and other places that have not been very pleased with them, it will be money well spent.

They had an absolutely fabulous quarter as far as the holidays were concerned. They had a lot of must- have items that hit you the second you walked in the door.

It is really difficult for Wal-Mart to go into a new country and just build from the ground up. They're doing it in China. But if you look at anywhere else they have gone into, they have always partnered with a local company of some sort.

I told parents that if John L. Smith had been there to tell parents how to help their children get on the MSU football team, there would have been a packed house,

I told God he had to give me the strength of 10 people. And you know, he did. That's the only way I could have managed something as crazy as this.

They're looking to totally change that, and that's a tall order.

If I live to be a couple hundred years old, the story will not change,

All the parents were promised things, and they never gave them.