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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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Mart
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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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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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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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