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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
Scarce
Encouragement
Capital
Entrepreneur
Vision
Successful
Success
Business

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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
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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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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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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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