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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 not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
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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 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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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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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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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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