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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
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Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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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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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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.
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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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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.
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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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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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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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 had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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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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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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