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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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Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
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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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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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High expectations are the key to everything.
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Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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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 not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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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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