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High expectations is the key to everything.

Sam Walton

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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
Expectations
Keys
High
Everything

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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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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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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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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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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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.
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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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If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
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I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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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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I've always been driven to buck the system.
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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 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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