To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowes, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

I want to be known as a great businessman.

If we put a product into Sears, we don't want to have to pull it out in a year, or two years, or three years. We don't want to do that only to have it yanked away.

We need to remember not to give the devil a chance and fall away from God’s grace

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

We are always children to our mothers.

I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders.

Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.

The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.