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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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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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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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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We're all working together that's the secret. And we'll lower the cost of living for everyone, not just in America, but we'll give the world an opportunity to see what it's like to save and have a better lifestyle, a better life for all. We're proud of what we've accomplished we've just begun.
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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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