"I was asked what I thought about the stock market. I said it was a good place to buy groceries."

"The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stock boys."

"I probably have traveled and sat on more uncomfortable chairs and driven more miles and eaten more bad food in more strange places than anybody else in the entire world."

"I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We tak…"

"I never gave up."