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Capital isn't scarce vision is.

Sam Walton

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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
Successful
Success
Business
Scarce
Encouragement
Capital
Entrepreneur
Vision

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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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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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High expectations are the key to everything.
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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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We're all working together that's the secret. And we'll lower the cost of living for everyone, not just in America, but we'll give the world an opportunity to see what it's like to save and have a better lifestyle, a better life for all. We're proud of what we've accomplished we've just begun.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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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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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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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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A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
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