You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient. - Sam Walton
Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community. - Sam Walton
I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us. - Sam Walton
Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score. - Sam Walton
I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it. - Sam Walton
Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making. - Sam Walton
You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. - Thomas Edison
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. - Thomas Edison
Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something. - Thomas Edison
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value. - Thomas Edison
People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward. - Thomas Edison
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before. - Stephen Covey
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. - Stephen Covey
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