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.

Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition.

"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."

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.

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.

Do it. Try it. Fix it.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.