Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.

...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.

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

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

I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.