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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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Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
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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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I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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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 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 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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
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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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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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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'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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