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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
Business
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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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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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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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High expectations are the key to everything.
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