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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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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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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 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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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 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 had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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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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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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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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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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