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From Quotes by Sam Walton
- 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.…
- The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want. And really, if you think about it from the point of view…
- Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.
- 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…
- 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…
- The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.
- 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…
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