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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
Businessman
Businessperson
Economist
Entrepreneur
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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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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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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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 had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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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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I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.
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Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.
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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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