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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
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Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street
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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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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 not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
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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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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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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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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 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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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High expectations are the key to everything.
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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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