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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.

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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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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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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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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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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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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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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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