The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign, ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’. They're still up there, and they have made all the difference.

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

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

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

It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.

Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.