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Real Estate Quotes

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

Now we have a very, very strong relationship with the Philippines, which is really important - less so for trade, in this case, than for military purposes. It is a strategic location - the most strategic location. And, if you look at it, it's called the most prime piece of real estate from a military standpoint.

I think real estate is really core, but you just nailed why I'm still here and loved retail - it's because of the breadth of it. I didn't appreciate how interesting retail was until I got started. You have to have a customer relationship, but you need leadership skills, servant leadership characteristics.

There are all these things that add up into this business that's Walmart that keeps it really interesting. At the root of it all, though, it's a people business and it's a merchandising business. Today, it's increasingly a technology business. The supply chain is critical, of course, and real estate still plays a key role.

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.