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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.

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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
Still
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Retail
Beginning
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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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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 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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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 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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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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'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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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 positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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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'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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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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