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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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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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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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Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.
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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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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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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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