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I've always been driven to buck the system.

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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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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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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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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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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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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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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