In the final analysis, you get what you pay for.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.