| 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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| Individuals don’t win. Teams do. |
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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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| The big lesson that we learned was that there was much, much more out there than we ever dreamed of. |
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| I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been. |
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- Sam Walton |
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| We’re not ashamed of having money, but I don’t believe a big showy lifestyle is appropriate for everyone. |
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- Sam Walton |
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| There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. |
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- Sam Walton |
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| I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time. |
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- Sam Walton |
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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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- Sam Walton |
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| If you take care of the people in the stores, they will take care of the customers in the same manner. |
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| Put the customer first, communicate, keep your ear to the ground, push responsibility and authority down, force ideas to bubble up, stay lean and fight bureaucracy, and always give something back. |
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| We had to keep expenses to a minimum. That is where it started. Our money was made by controlling expenses. |
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| Capital isn't scarce; vision is. |
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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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| High expectations are the key to everything. |
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| There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of. |
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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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| We're all working together; that's the secret. |
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| Desire and a willingness to work make up for a lack of experience. |
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| I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high. |
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