Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.

You'd rather own gold; never own the miner.

There have been tours where we hit a different Wal-Mart almost every night.

When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.'

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.