A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

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

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes.

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

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