Michael Bergdahl

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!