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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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Folks
Interested
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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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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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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.
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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 believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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