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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.

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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
Improving
Everyday
Mind
Something

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.
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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it.
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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody 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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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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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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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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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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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