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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

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
Commitment
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Vision
Mart
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Community
Store
Values
Stores
Business
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Customers

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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody 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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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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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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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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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