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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.

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
Something
Customer
Deliver
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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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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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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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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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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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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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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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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