When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

It's not just professional athletes and soldiers who are at risk from traumatic brain injury. More than 1.7 million people a year sustain a traumatic brain injury, and about 50,000 of them die each year, according the Centers for Disease Control. There are both emotional and financial costs from these injuries.

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

I'm not really a food connoisseur.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand.

I think that, whether you liked the outcome or not, the reasons for doing 'Ultimatum' were necessary. The Ultimate Universe had become too much like the regular Marvel Universe, and that was certainly not a good thing for the line.

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

A sense of accomplishment comes when you have completed the tasks for the goals you have set for yourself.

Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.

The Republicans are coming - make nice.

If you really want a career in professional skateboarding,you really got to stop pushing mongo.

Never invest emergency savings in the stock market.

Everybody is pathological to a certain degree... the more so the elevated his standing... only myth and cliche have that a person must be either sane or crazy.

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house.

Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.

Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.