Sam Walton Quotes

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

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

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

All of us profit from being corrected – if we’re corrected in a positive way.

High expectations are the key to everything.

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

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

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

If you don’t listen to your customers, someone else will.

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

Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

You can’t just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

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