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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
First
Sell
Things
Sells
Life
Dollars
Four
Happiness
Three
Firsts
Matter
Dollar

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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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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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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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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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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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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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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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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 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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Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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