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

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

Individuals don't win in business, teams do.

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

I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.

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.

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