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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
Sam Walton
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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
Businessman
Businessperson
Economist
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Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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More quotes by Sam Walton
Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.
Sam Walton
Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
Sam Walton
Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
Sam Walton
Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
Sam Walton
The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
Sam Walton
Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
Sam Walton
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.
Sam Walton
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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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
Sam Walton
Do it. Try it. Fix it.
Sam Walton
I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
Sam Walton
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.
Sam Walton
We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
Sam Walton
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.
Sam Walton
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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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.
Sam Walton
Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
Sam Walton