Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

Differentiate your products, provide great service and don't even think about trying to compete with Wal-Mart on Price.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.

Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

Doesn't becoming imply time?

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.

Anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you choose.