"Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making."

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

High expectations is the key to everything.

I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.

There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

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.