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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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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 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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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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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 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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There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
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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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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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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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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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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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