I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

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.

"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."

Do it. Try it. Fix it.

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

A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.