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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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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
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Oklahoma
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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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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
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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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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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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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Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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