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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
Mind
Something
Improving
Everyday

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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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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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Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.
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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.
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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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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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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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