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

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.

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Individuals don't win in business, teams do.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

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.