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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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Opportunity
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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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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 secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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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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 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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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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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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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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