Sam Walton

There is only one boss. The customer...

— Sam Walton

Lose your smile and lose your customers.

— Sam Walton

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

— Sam Walton

High expectations is the key to everything.

— Sam Walton

I've never been one to dwell on reverses.

— Sam Walton

Do it. Try it. Fix it.

— Sam Walton

You can learn from everybody.

— Sam Walton

I've always been driven to buck the system.

— Sam Walton

I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.

— Sam Walton

Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.

— Sam Walton

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

— Sam Walton

...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.

— Sam Walton

It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.

— Sam Walton

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

— Sam Walton

We're all working together; that's the secret.

— Sam Walton

High expectations are the key to everything.

— Sam Walton

Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.

— Sam Walton

Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for…

— Sam Walton

Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.

— Sam Walton

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then…

— Sam Walton

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

— Sam Walton

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

— Sam Walton

There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a…

— Sam Walton

A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could…

— Sam Walton

I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming…

— Sam Walton

“From 1977 to 1987, our average annual return to investors was 46 percent. And even in the middle of the recession, in…

— Sam Walton

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise.…

— Sam Walton

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty…

— Sam Walton

“Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First, he gets up every day bound and determined…

— Sam Walton

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any…

— Sam Walton

I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess…

— Sam Walton

I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time…

— Sam Walton

I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming…

— Sam Walton

The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from the…

— Sam Walton

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance…

— Sam Walton

“Individuals don’t win, teams do”

— Sam Walton

Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes.

— Sam Walton

Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

— Sam Walton

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

— Sam Walton

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

— Sam Walton