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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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I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need 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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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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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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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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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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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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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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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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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Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.
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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
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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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I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.
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