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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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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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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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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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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
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Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.
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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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