Sam Walton Quotes - Page 4

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

I've owned about 18 airplanes over the years, and I've never bought one of them new.

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

I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.

I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.

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

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

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

I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.

There’s a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings.

I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

I've always been driven to buck the system.