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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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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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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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'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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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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 believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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