“Creating a huge personal fortune was never particularly a goal of mine, and the proof of that lies in the fact that even to this day most of my, and my family’s, wealth remains in the form of Wal-Mart stock. I think most people in our position would have hedged their bets a long time ago and diversi…”— Sam Walton, amazon.com
“We opened one, store number 8 in Morrilton, Arkansas, that was really a sight. We rented this old Coca-Cola bottling plant. It was all broken up into five rooms, and we bought some old fixtures from a failing Gibson’s store for $3,000. We hung them by baling wire from the ceiling. We had clothes han…”— Sam Walton, amazon.com
“The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign: “Satisfaction Guaranteed.” They’re still up there, and they have made all the difference.”— Sam Walton, amazon.com
“What’s really worried me over the years is not our stock price, but that we might someday fail to take care of our customers, or that our managers might fail to motivate and take care of our associates. I also was worried that we might lose the team concept, or fail to keep the family concept viable…”— Sam Walton, amazon.com
“For my whole career in retail, I have stuck by one guiding principle. It’s a simple one, and I have repeated it over and over and over in this book until I’m sure you’re sick to death of it. But I’m going to say it again anyway: the secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they…”— Sam Walton, amazon.com
“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.”— Sam Walton, goodreads.com
“The success of America’s startup ecosystem depends on an open internet with enforceable net neutrality rules, ensuring that small companies can compete on a level playing field without the threat that their services will be discriminated against by big cable and wireless companies.”— StartUps For Net Neutrality, engine.is
“We should be rewarding work in this country, not doling out lavish tax cuts to big businesses, CEOs, and bankers.”— Kirsten Gillibrand, twitter.com
“People have learned how to become influencers, so brands have to utilize influencers more all the time. What we loved about Influential’s model is it helps us sort through that, and in this case finding those 10 specific people that were perfect, not just for the vehicle, but for our brand and what…”— Dean Evans, adweek.com
“This is the trickle down lie: that if you help big business, this will create better jobs & wages. NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER THAT THIS IS TRUE!”— Marianne Williamson, twitter.com
“I think a lot of people tend to take every win and every loss as some sort of play-by-play: if you win, you win, and if you lose, you lose. But I don't see life like that at all. There's a much bigger game going on, and if you step back from the play-by-play and look at the big picture, the ability…”— Chip Gaines, amazon.com
“The point I'm making here is that as we grew the challenges grew with us. But we turned just about every situation into a learning opportunity.”— Chip Gaines, amazon.com
“The point is, rather than changing how I operate, I choose to think the better of people than they might think of themselves. Even if I got all up in arms about these things, who am I to jump to conclusions? I don't know their story, so I'm not going to make snap judgements about them.”— Chip Gaines, amazon.com
“Perhaps you have to be crazy to choose the life of an entrepreneur, but you have to be stupid to choose it without ever counting the cost.”— Chip Gaines, amazon.com
“Why try to predict what something is capable of or what it’s going to do? Instead, why not just make a runway for ideas to take flight—and then enjoy watching them soar.”— Chip Gaines, amazon.com
“I have some good intuition, I think, but I’ll tell you something: After being in this business around 23 years for A.P.C., you have to die and be born again. You have to say, ‘This store location isn’t happening,’ and make it fresh somewhere else. You have to say, ‘This part of the team I’m working…”— Jean Touitou, interviewmagazine.com
“An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com