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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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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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High expectations are the key to everything.
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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 had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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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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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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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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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.
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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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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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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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There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
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