"I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that."

"But Sam was also frugal, to put it mildly."

"I'm a great believer in getting out and walking around and seeing what the competition is doing."

"I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't go to work every day."

"A most unusual aspect of the Waltons was that they believed in family ownership. Way back in 1953, following a model created by Helen's father, Sam gave all his shares in the company to a family corpo…"