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High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
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Samuel Moore Walton
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I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street
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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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.
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Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.
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I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.
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Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune
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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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