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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.

Sam Walton

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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
Businessman
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Economist
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Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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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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 let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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 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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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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 key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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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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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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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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