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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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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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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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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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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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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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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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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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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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