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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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Enough
Hard
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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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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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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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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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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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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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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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Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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