Sam Walton Quotes

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

Like many entrepreneurs, I started out in sales. I began at 14, when I got a job selling shoes and tennis rackets at a pro shop, and I've been selling one thing or another ever since.

I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

I saw these new kinds of stores: the Body Shop, the Sock Shop, and I thought to myself, 'I can do that.'

I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

This is my hobby: growing stores, adding stores. It's fun.

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

Comedy chose me.

My mom and I had a kids' clothing store called Smooch for six years, and I did all the buying before I even had kids.

I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

I always wanted to have my own boutiques. I'm so passionate about clothing and always have been so business-minded.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

Theater was just what I was supposed to do.

I always loved retail. I love the ideas behind it. I think small-business retail is one of the areas where capitalism works so wonderfully well.

I got two stores, two streetwear stores, at home. Have to tend to those. Play Cloths. Have to tend to that business.

We always joke that our road crew will have to wheelchair us up onstage soon because this is what we do. This is what we love to do. This is what God put us on earth to do until the day we take our last breath.

I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.

I love to think about business. It's what makes me happy.

It was like boxing found me.

A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.