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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.
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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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