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

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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
Businessman
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Economist
Entrepreneur
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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 goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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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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I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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 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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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'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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