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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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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
Businessman
Businessperson
Economist
Entrepreneur
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
Inspirational
Customer
Best
Customers
Satisfaction
Service
Focus
Company
Goal
Business
Legendary

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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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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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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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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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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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I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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