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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.

Sam Walton

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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
Commitment
Anybody
Business
Else
Believe
Commit

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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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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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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 goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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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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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.
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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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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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High expectations are the key to everything.
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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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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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