“I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give fo...” — Sam Walton Quote

“I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.”

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

“I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.”

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

“Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.”

“The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.”

“Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.”

“A manager doesn't hear the cheers.”

“Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.”

“I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.”

“And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.”

“You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”