If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.

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.

If you talk about what you believe, you will attract those who believe what you believe.

It's the discipline to understand that the things that might make you rich or things might make you famous are sometimes worth pursuing and sometimes are not.

There are leaders, and there are those who lead.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.