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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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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
Businessman
Businessperson
Economist
Entrepreneur
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
Inspirational
Care
Everything
Associates
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Communicate

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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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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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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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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 believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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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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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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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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 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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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