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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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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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 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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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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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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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.
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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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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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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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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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