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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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Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.
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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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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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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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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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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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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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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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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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