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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
Team
Winning
Individual
Business

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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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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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 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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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