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Unit 2 Values Introduction Text Comprehension Language Focus Structure Comprehension Exercises Value In your opinion, what is value? Some quotations on values One should eat to live, not live to eat. Benjamin Franklin The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them; he has lived for a long time who has little lived. Michel de Montaigne 1533–1592 , French essayist. Essays. That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. --Henry David Thoreau If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. --Henry Ford To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. --Robert Louis Stevenson Cultural Notes Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Wal-Mart’s operations include Wal-Mart discount stores, Wal-Mart Supercenters, Bud’s Discount City stores, and Sam’s Club warehouse stores. In 1945 Wal-Mart’s founder, Sam Walton, became manager of a Ben Franklin variety store franchise in Newport, Arkansas. Sam Walton’s guiding philosophy for his stores from the beginning was to offer consumers a wide selection of goods at a discounted price. The company saved money by keeping advertising costs low and located stores in small towns where residents had few options for retail shopping. Quotation from Sam Walton There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. Sam Walton 1918 - 1992 U.S. retail executive. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd. manufacturer of luxury automobiles based in Crewe, England. The world’s premier maker of luxury cars for much of the 20th century. In 1906 Charles Stewart Rolls, the owner of a London car dealership, and Frederick Henry Royce, an engineer who had built his own two-cylinder car, formed a partnership in Manchester to produce state-of-the-art automobiles. Pre-reading T