Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously.

I probably have traveled and visited more stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company.

Exceed your customers' expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want — and a little more.

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

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.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

-- Louis Pasteur

We survive through adversity and perish through comfort.

-- Mencius

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

-- Thomas Edison

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive.

-- Ratan Tata

Never think you have exhausted every option. Stand at the cliff's edge, and a fresh wind will surely blow.

-- Kōnosuke Matsushita

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

-- Oprah Winfrey