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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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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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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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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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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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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 pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.
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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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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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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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