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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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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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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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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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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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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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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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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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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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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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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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