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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
Success
Business
Scarce
Encouragement
Capital
Entrepreneur
Vision
Successful

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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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody 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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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it.
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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
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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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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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