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Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
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Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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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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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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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We're all working together that's the secret. And we'll lower the cost of living for everyone, not just in America, but we'll give the world an opportunity to see what it's like to save and have a better lifestyle, a better life for all. We're proud of what we've accomplished we've just begun.
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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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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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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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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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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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