Growth Quotes

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that-that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in and new lessons to learn, which is what life is all about.

Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

Other tasks and other jobs changed, which enabled us to create new jobs that paid more and have fewer of the older jobs that went away. I hope what happens as we lead through this is that there will be pluses and minuses, but the net ends up being even more people because we have more ideas of how to grow.

Today, we still have more than 300,000 U.S. associates who were with us since 2015 and are now leading teams, running stores and clubs, and continuing to grow their careers. Their stories are a reminder that when people are given opportunity, they make the most of it - and a culture of opportunity creates a cycle where happy associates lead to happy customers and members, and vice versa.

Today, Walmart employs about 2.1 million associates. The vast majority of our management team started as an hourly, just like I did. If you walked around here, not just here in Arkansas, but around our company, you would find a lot of people with more than 20 years of service, and you'd find a lot of people who've joined the company to climb up the ladder and create opportunities for themselves.

Volunteer for something extra, volunteer for something hard. One of the reasons that I got the opportunities that I got was that I would raise my hand when my boss was out of town and he or she was visiting stores or something, and someone needed to pinch hit and go to a meeting, I would go, and if I knew the answer to the question that came up, I'd share it, if I didn't, I'd say, "I don't know, but I'll find out fast and get back to you." I then put myself in an environment where I became a low risk promotion because people had already seen me do the job.

If you could see that from the many years that we've been here and you could expect that to continue, we see the growth in India.

I bet you that over time, because we come up with new ideas to grow sales, we end up with about the same number of people making more money.

Private brand's important. We invest in quality. We try to treat them like they really are brands, and not just some private label. But, you know, we wouldn't wanna see them continue to grow in percent of total too much. We would like for the brands to offer value to customers and have them grow.

We get to do business all over the world, and it's rare to have such a big economy [India], growing so fast, and creating so much opportunity for so many. We want to be part of the process to strengthen the country, to serve its citizens and to demonstrate that we're a trusted partner across all these dimensions.