Sam Walton Quotes

Browse 15 quotes from Sam Walton, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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High expectations are the key to everything
Celebrate your successes. Find some humour in your failures.
Most everything I’ve done I’ve copied from somebody else
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
You can't just keep doing what works one time; everything around you is always changing. To succeed, stay out in front of that change
To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners
Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
Individuals don't win in business; teams do
The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
There is only one boss. The customer.
I have always tried to make our people believe that we are the agents for our customers.
The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary.

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