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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.

Sam Walton

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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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