168 Quotes by Sam Walton

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.

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.

Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

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.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

The way management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers.

The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.