Top 36 Quotes by Sam Walton

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

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

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

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

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

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

I've never been one to dwell on reverses.

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

I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.