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.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

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

I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it.

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.

I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.

I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.