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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
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Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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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Do it. Try it. Fix 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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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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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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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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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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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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 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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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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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.
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