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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
Winning
Individual
Business
Teams
Individuals
Team

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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'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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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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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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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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 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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
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