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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
Team
Winning
Individual
Business

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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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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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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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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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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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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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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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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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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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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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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