It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings.

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

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

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. 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. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.

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.

Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition.