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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
Sam Walton
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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
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Samuel Moore Walton
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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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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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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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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