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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.

Sam Walton

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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
People
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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 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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