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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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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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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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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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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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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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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'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.
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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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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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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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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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