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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
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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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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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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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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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