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

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.

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.

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

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.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

Promise yourself that you will not leave this world before accomplishing what is important to you and what matters for the world.

As soon as he closed the door of his room, The sadness came out of the walland asked"Where were you all the day

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

What I've seen historically is winning is a major aloe. It solves a lot of problems.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.

The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.