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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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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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