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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
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Economist
Entrepreneur
Kingfisher
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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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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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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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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Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.
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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
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There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
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Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver 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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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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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.
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