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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 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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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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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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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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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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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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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