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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
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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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There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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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 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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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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Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
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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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