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.

I've owned about 18 airplanes over the years, and I've never bought one of them new.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

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.

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.

A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.

I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.