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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.

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
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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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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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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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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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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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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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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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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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