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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
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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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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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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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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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You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
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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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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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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've always been driven to buck the system.
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Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.
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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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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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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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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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