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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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Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
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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 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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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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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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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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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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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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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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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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
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