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.

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

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.

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

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.

Differentiate your products, provide great service and don't even think about trying to compete with Wal-Mart on Price.