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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
Encouragement
Capital
Entrepreneur
Vision
Successful
Success
Business
Scarce

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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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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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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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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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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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