Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

There’s a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.