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He proved that people can be motivated. The mountain is there, but somebody else has already climbed it. — Sam Walton

The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other. — Sam Walton

Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys. — Sam Walton

I've never been one to dwell on reverses. — Sam Walton

Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning. — Sam Walton

Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them. — Sam Walton

I've always been driven to buck the system. — Sam Walton

Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases. — Sam Walton

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. — Sam Walton

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change. — Sam Walton

The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary. — Sam Walton

Individuals don't win in business, teams do. — Sam Walton

In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well. — Sam Walton

It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings. — Sam Walton

I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long. — Sam Walton

If you don't listen to your customers, someone else will. — Sam Walton

I've owned about 18 airplanes over the years, and I've never bought one of them new. — Sam Walton

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of. — Sam Walton

What we guard against around here is people saying, 'Let's think about it.' We make a decision. Then we act on it. — Sam Walton

Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change. — Sam Walton

Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea. — Sam Walton

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else. — Sam Walton

It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Sam Walton

I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for. — Sam Walton

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much. — Sam Walton

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. — Sam Walton

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage. — Sam Walton

You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough. — Sam Walton

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community. — Sam Walton

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. — Sam Walton

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. — Sam Walton

We're all working together; that's the secret. — Sam Walton

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor. — Sam Walton

There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar. — Sam Walton

Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition. — Sam Walton

I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself. — Sam Walton

The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers. — Sam Walton

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it. — Sam Walton

High expectations is the key to everything. — Sam Walton

Do it. Try it. Fix it. — Sam Walton

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. — Sam Walton

I got into retailing because I wanted a real job. — Sam Walton

Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else. — Sam Walton

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. — Sam Walton

Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself. — Sam Walton

What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce? — Sam Walton

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are. — Sam Walton

You can learn from everybody. — Sam Walton

If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them - not that they are working for you. — Sam Walton

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy. — Michael Bergdahl

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. — Sam Walton

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. — Sam Walton

I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today. — Sam Walton

I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something. — Sam Walton

The way management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers. — Sam Walton

It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock. — Sam Walton

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time. — Sam Walton

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part. — Sam Walton

High expectations are the key to everything. — Sam Walton

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards. — Michael Bergdahl

Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it. — Sam Walton

Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up. — Sam Walton

Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living. — Sam Walton

Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.' — Bill Dedman

Sam Walton said, 'It takes 20 years to be an overnight success. — Allan Branch

Take the best out of everything and adapt it to your needs. — Sam Walton

Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else. — Sam Walton

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. — Sam Walton

I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high. — Sam Walton

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. — Sam Walton

Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes. — Sam Walton

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction. — Sam Walton

Lose your smile and lose your customers. — Sam Walton

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more. — Sam Walton

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way. — Sam Walton

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people. — Sam Walton

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune. — Sam Walton

Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score. — Sam Walton

There is only one boss. The customer ... — Sam Walton

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult. — Sam Walton

And like most other overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making. Of — Sam Walton

If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine. — Sam Walton

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. — Sam Walton

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. — Sam Walton

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been. — Sam Walton

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable. — Sam Walton