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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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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
Businessman
Businessperson
Economist
Entrepreneur
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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Pickup
Mart
Truck
Stock
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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 secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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