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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.

Sam Walton

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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
Businessman
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Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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.
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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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