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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
Customer
Deliver
Customers
Wants
Focus
Something

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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'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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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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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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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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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 had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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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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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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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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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've always been driven to buck the system.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
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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 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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