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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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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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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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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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