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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
Retail
Beginning
Loved
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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 to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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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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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 probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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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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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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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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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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