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

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
Loved
Stills
Still
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Love
Retail
Beginning

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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
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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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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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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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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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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 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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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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Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
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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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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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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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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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I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're born with this kind of passion, or if you can learn it. But I do know you need it.
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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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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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