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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
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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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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
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I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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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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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 had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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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 loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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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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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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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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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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