Sam Walton Quotes

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

I get to learn and teach something new everyday.

My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.

It is very important to learn. And I try to learn from everything around me.

Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned

I think that every day is a learning experience. I mean, every time I go to a school I learn something else from a teacher or learn something else from a student, I learn something else from a parent. There's so much to know when you talk about education.

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.