Sam Walton — "I always thought I was going to be a millionaire. I just didn't know it was goin…"

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."

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

"Walton loved listening to individual employees. He particularly liked talking to the truck drivers—they saw more stores per week than anyone else, and they tended to say what they really thought."

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

"We must have cheap help or we cannot sell cheap goods."