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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
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Retail
Beginning

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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High expectations are the key to everything.
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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 secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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 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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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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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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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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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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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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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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