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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.
Sam Walton
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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
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Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
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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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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune
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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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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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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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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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