168 Quotes by Sam Walton

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

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

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.

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

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

I've never been one to dwell on reverses.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.