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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
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Economist
Entrepreneur
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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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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High expectations are the key to everything.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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