At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

Differentiate your products, provide great service and don't even think about trying to compete with Wal-Mart on Price.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.

In other words, God Himself will prepare the man to meet these trials. Joseph found himself in this situation

Please wake me when I'm freeI cannot bear captivity4 I would rather be stricken blindThan 2 live without expression of mind

I’ve been through all this before, ’ he says to his heart.“ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before, ’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.

In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!

You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.

Want wisdom? Laugh at yourself.

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.

There is nothing wrong with America that Americans can't fix.

You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.