"I'm just a simple country boy."

"Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else."

"It never occurred to me that I might lose; to me, it was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy."

"No matter how you slice it in the retail business, payroll is one of the most crucial things you have to fight to maintain your profit margin. That was true then, and it is still true today."

"I had an advantage. I had no money."