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.

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

There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

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 was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.

Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.