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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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Negative
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Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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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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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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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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street
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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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