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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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Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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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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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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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 let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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