PEOPLE

Life's too short to hang out with people who are not resourceful.

The most important thing you can do for yourself in your career is to work on something you love with people you love.

I bet on the jockey, not the horse. I can always fix the business. I cannot fix the person.

Security is not a technology problem for most companies. It is a people problem. They do not have enough skilled people. We are the people.

Our riders are not costs. They are the backbone of the company. When they succeed we succeed.

Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank walked into my office with an idea about a home improvement warehouse. I saw their eyes and knew I was in.

Back people, not ideas. A great operator with a mediocre idea will figure it out.

The best investments are in people, not products. Products change — great people adapt.

I invest in people first, ideas second. A great team with a good idea will beat a weak team with a great idea every time.

Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure they come back the next morning.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

The business of business is people — yesterday, today, and forever.

The best investment I ever made was in people — not just products or deals.

You cannot run a pharmacy from a spreadsheet. You run it with people. The numbers follow the people.

I back people first, ideas second. The best business plans fail with the wrong team. The worst business plans succeed with the right one.

You don't listen to them depicting the future. You look at their past. People are built to be continuous. They won't change suddenly.