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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.

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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
Teams
Individuals
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Business

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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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've always been driven to buck the system.
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I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.
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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 loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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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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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