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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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Vision
Mart
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Reflect
Community
Store
Values
Stores
Business
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Customers

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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.
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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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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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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.
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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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