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Sam Walton
American
Businessman
Born:
Mar 29
,
1918
Died:
Apr 5
,
1992
Business
Know
People
Will
You
Your
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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.
Sam Walton
Business
Money
Somewhere
Fire
Down
Everybody
Else
Spending
Boss
Only
Somewhere Else
He
Simply
His
Customer
Company
Chairman
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
Sam Walton
Celebrate
Humor
Find
Some
Failures
Successes
Your
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.
Sam Walton
Leadership
People
Amazing
Believe
Way
Boost
Out
Outstanding
Leaders
Self-Esteem
Go
Accomplish
Personnel
Themselves
The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
Sam Walton
Management
Treat
Will
Way
Exactly
How
Customers
Associates
Treats
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.
Sam Walton
Work
Love
Best
Day
You
Every Day
Passion
Will
Every
Everybody
Out
Possibly
Pretty
Catch
Soon
Like
Around
Trying
Fever
Your
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
You
Together
Treat
Will
Partner
Wildest
Share
Perform
Beyond
Partners
Expectations
Them
Turn
Your
Profits
Associates
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
Words
Worth
Free
Few
Nothing
Else
Absolutely
Absolutely Free
Sincere
Well-Timed
Praise
Quite
Substitute
Fortune
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
You
Back
Give
Exceed
More
Over
Come
Expectations
Want
Little
Customer
Them
Your
The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.
Sam Walton
Success
Key
Key To Success
Say
Out
Get
Listen
Store
Success Is
Associates
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
Good
You
Everybody
Way
Find
Exactly
One-Way
Direction
Doing
Opposite
Opposite Direction
Going
Your
Good Chance
Niche
Chance
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Sam Walton
Business
Everything
Your
Associates
Appreciate
We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
Sam Walton
Cause
Folks
Vital
Know
Interested
Them
Us
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Sam Walton
Wisdom
Other
Way
Go
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Upstream
Ignore
Swim
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.
Sam Walton
You
Business
Brilliant
Mistakes
Too
Out
Run
Recover
Make
Operation
Inefficient
Still
Go
Lot
Efficient
All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
Sam Walton
Positive
Profit
Positive Way
Way
Corrected
Being
Us
Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
Sam Walton
You
Competition
Better
Control
Find
Advantage
Always
Than
Expenses
Where
Your
Competitive
Competitive Advantage
Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
Sam Walton
Vision
Values
Reflect
Community
Support
Wal-Mart
Store
Hold
Customers
Should
Each
Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
Sam Walton
You
Will
Everybody
Around
Loosen
Up
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
Fate
Beginning
Born
About
Retail
Merchant
Know
Sure
Very
Maybe
Loved
I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
Sam Walton
Job
Retailing
Because
Got
Real
Real Job
Wanted
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
Sam Walton
Buy
People
Rich
Folk
Give
Same
Same Things
Ordinary
Rich People
Things
Chance
I've never been one to dwell on reverses.
Sam Walton
Never
Been
Dwell
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