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Capital isn't scarce vision is.

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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
Businessman
Businessperson
Economist
Entrepreneur
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
Entrepreneur
Vision
Successful
Success
Business
Scarce
Encouragement
Capital

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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.
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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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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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High expectations are 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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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'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.
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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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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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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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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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