The truth is we have a consistent purpose that we got from our founder, some values that we share - those are persistent, too. It's not just change. But that's the thing that people underestimate about Walmart right now, that it has an ability to change.

So I care what people think, and I like people, and I like employing people and I like creating opportunity for people so I'm pro-people and I want the technology to help us serve people. Of course, we want machines to do what machines are best at, you must and you want to, and at the same time, we should consider the importance of being purpose-driven.

If we were with a bunch of Walmart associates right now, we could say, 'The only thing that's constant in our company other than our purpose and values is..,' and they would respond, 'Change.'"

The purpose is the purpose, the values are the values. Everything else is open to debate and may change.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.