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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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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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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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High expectations are the key to everything.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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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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We're all working together that's the secret. And we'll lower the cost of living for everyone, not just in America, but we'll give the world an opportunity to see what it's like to save and have a better lifestyle, a better life for all. We're proud of what we've accomplished we've just begun.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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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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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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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