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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
Business
Scarce
Encouragement
Capital
Entrepreneur
Vision
Successful
Success

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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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 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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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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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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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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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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 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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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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