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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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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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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.
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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've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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