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One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

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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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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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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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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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We're all working together that's the secret. And we'll lower the cost of living for everyone, not just in America, but we'll give the world an opportunity to see what it's like to save and have a better lifestyle, a better life for all. We're proud of what we've accomplished we've just begun.
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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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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 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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