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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
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Clerks
Innovation
Listening
Best
Ideas

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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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 not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
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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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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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I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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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Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
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