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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
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Economist
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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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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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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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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 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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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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 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 had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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