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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
High expectations are the key to everything.
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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.
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.
We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
We're all working together; that's the secret.
All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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29 March, 1918
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05 April, 1992
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