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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.

Sam Walton

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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
Businessman
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Economist
Entrepreneur
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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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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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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It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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