I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

High expectations are the key to everything.

We're all working together; that's the secret.

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

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.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.

Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

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.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.

The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.

What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

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.

Loosen up and everybody around you will loosen up.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

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.

The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well chosen well timed sincere words of praise. Theyre absolutely free and worth a fortune.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves its amazing what they can accomplish.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.

Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.

America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

Now I am careful about the kind of roles that I do.

Everyone notices everyone else's problems but never pay attention to their own.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves.

Government can encourage innovation, but mainly by doing less, not doing more.

Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you can start small, and that's just as important.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.