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There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK.

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

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

I love Wal-Mart, and not just because my record is there. You can get some things there that you cannot find at Saks or Bergdorf's or other upscale stores.

Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'

You go into Wal-Mart, and you see stuff you typically wouldn't see anywhere else.

We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.

Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.