168 Quotes by Sam Walton

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

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

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

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

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

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.

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

I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.