What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.

We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is.

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.