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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.

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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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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