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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

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
Upstream
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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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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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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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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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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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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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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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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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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