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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
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Economist
Entrepreneur
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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 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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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
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