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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
Team
Winning
Individual
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Individuals

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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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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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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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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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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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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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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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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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 not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
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