Sam Walton

“What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?”

“I've never been one to dwell on reverses.”

“In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.”

“High expectations are the key to everything.”

“Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.”

“We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.”

“If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.”

“Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.”

“Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.”

“Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.”

“All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.”

“I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.”

“Capital isn't scarce; vision is.”

“One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.”

“I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.”

“We're all working together; that's the secret.”