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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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Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
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Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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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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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You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
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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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When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
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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 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 had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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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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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 believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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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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High expectations are the key to everything.
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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 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 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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