If we put a product into Sears, we don't want to have to pull it out in a year, or two years, or three years. We don't want to do that only to have it yanked away.

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

I want to be known as a great businessman.

To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowes, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.

Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.

...dream BIG like a child!

For, in his opinion, to study nature was a form of worship.

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.

The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.