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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.

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
Money
Score
Enough
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Competition
Aren
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High
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Ownership
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Encourage

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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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I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
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Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.
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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
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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 had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.
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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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