I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.

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

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.

If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them - not that they are working for you.

I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.

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.