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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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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 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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Capital isn't scarce vision is.
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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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High expectations is the key to everything.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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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 believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
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I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
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Curiosity doesn't kill the cat it kills the competition.
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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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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 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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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
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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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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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