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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
Retail
Beginning
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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 not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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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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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 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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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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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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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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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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