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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

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
Listening
Best
Ideas
Come
Clerks
Innovation

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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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Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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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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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 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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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