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.

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

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

Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

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

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.