If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

As organizations get larger, there seems to be a tendency to use the heavy-weight Type 1 decision-making process on most decisions, including many Type 2 decisions. The end result of this is slowness, unthoughtful risk aversion, failure to experiment sufficiently, and consequently diminished invention. We'll have to figure out how to fight that tendency.

Every decision, setback, or triumph is an opportunity to identify the seeds of truth that make you the wondrous human being you are.

I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk.

There just aren't that many opportunities in the world that are that big, and for a company like Walmart that needs to move the needle in a big way, you have to take some big bets, but if you're going to take that much risk, the reward has to match up.

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.