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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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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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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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The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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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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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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