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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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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
Businessman
Businessperson
Economist
Entrepreneur
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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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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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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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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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 let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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High expectations is the key to everything.
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Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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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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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