Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.

I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.