Take the best out of everything and adapt it to your needs.
I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
You can learn from everybody.
You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
"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."