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

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.

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.

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.'"

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.