You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

Take the best out of everything and adapt it to your needs.

Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes.

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.