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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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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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Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
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You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
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A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.
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Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.
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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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