“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”

“The point I’m trying to make is that we as a family have bent over backward not to take advantage of Wal-Mart, not to press our ownership position unfairly, and everybody in the company knows it. Alice”

“The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign: “Satisfaction Guaranteed.” They’re still up there, and they have made all the difference.”

“Individuals don’t win, teams do”

“I guess his vindication had to be the day in 1989 when he walked into a Kmart in Illinois and found that they had installed people greeters at their front doors.”

“Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First, he gets up every day bound and determined to improve something. Second, he is less afraid of being wrong than anyone I’ve ever known. And once he sees he’s wrong, he just shakes it off and heads in another direction.”

“Business is a competitive endeavor, and job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living. To”

“Watson, Sr., was running IBM, he decided they would never have more than four layers from the chairman of the board to the lowest level in the company. That may have been one of the greatest single reasons why IBM was successful.”

“There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

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

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

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

"Little about your work, tease and titillate with alluring, even contradictory comments, then stand back and let others try to make sense of it all."

"Understand: we live in the world of a sad separation that began some five hundred years ago when art and science split apart."

"Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid."

"The best way to neutralize our natural impatience is to cultivate a kind of pleasure in pain—like an athlete, you come to enjoy rigorous practice, pushing past your limits, and resisting the easy way out."

"The need for certainty is the greatest disease the mind faces."

"Moving towards mastery will naturally bring you a more global outlook, but it is always wise to expedite the process by training yourself early on to continually enlarge your perspective."

"Tweere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood"

"Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain."

"Never argue. In society nothing must be discussed; give only results. "

"Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on."

"Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention."

"Through continual exposure to people and by attempting to think inside of them we can gain an increasing sense of their perspective, but this requires effort on our part."