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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
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Business
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Vision
Mart
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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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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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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 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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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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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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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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