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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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Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
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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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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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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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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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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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Do it. Try it. Fix 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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