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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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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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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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High expectations are the key to everything.
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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'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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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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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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