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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.

Sam Walton

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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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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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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.
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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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Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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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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Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
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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 loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
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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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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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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 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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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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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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