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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
Beginning
Loved
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Retail

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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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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 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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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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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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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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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