Sam Walton Quotes

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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…
• Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.
• Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
• 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…
• Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
• I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive.…
• 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…
• 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…
• I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk…
• After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.
• Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
• Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
• 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.
• Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.
• The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
• If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.
• All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult,
• Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.
• Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun…
• ...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.

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