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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.

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
Curiosity
Competition
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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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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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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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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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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 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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