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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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Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.
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Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
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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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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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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Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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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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