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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.

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
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Life
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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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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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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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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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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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 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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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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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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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