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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.

Sam Walton

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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
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Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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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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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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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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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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