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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
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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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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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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody 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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High expectations are the key to everything.
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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
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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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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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