Sam Walton Quotes

I really want to be different.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

Always do something different from the others.

I think what makes me successful is that I'm so different from the other guys.

You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time.

We always try to be a unique company.

I live by the business model that there is a better than, a less than, or a different than. Those are the three categories. I chose to be different than. The one that's different than will stand out with the proper work ethic.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

I like being unconventional.

I am a contrarian.

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.

If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

I don't want to go out there and do something 3,000 other people can do.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base.

Image is not one way to differentiate yourself, it's the only way.

Genius does not herd with genius.

We don't do things the same way everyone else does. We relish being different. We see that difference as an element that makes us more compelling to the consumer.

I've always found success in sort of separating myself from the pack mentality things.

I just wanted to be different; I didn't wanna sound like anybody else.

Be an individual. I mean, obviously it's hard for a brand, for a corporation, to have a huge following.