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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
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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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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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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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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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 loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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