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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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The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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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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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
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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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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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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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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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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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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