Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.

I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.