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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.

Sam Walton

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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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Winning
Individual
Business

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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 loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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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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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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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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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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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
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