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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
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Economist
Entrepreneur
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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 probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
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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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High expectations are the key to everything.
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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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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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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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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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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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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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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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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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