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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
Communicate
Inspirational
Care
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Associates
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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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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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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 loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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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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I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it.
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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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