Quotes from Sam Walton

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

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

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.

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.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.

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 had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.

I've never been one to dwell on reverses.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.