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<p>Sam Walton’s thinking travels well beyond Walmart: it is obsessed with <strong>signals from the floor</strong>—what associates notice, what customers repeat, what competitors ignore. Use these quotes as daily prompts, not as nostalgia.</p>
<h2>Translate “customer service” into behaviors</h2>
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<li>Walk the floor (or the feed): where does friction show up?</li>
<li>Praise specifically and early.</li>
<li>Do the opposite test: if everyone zigs, what valid zag exists?</li>
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<h2>Twenty Sam Walton quotes</h2>
<ul class="jq-quote-list"><li><blockquote><p>High expectations are the key to everything.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>Capital isn't scarce; vision is.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>The goal of a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>Give ordinary folks the chance to buy the same things as rich people.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>Money and ownership alone aren't all that much fun.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>I had to pick myself up and get on with it, learn from my mistakes.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>I guess everybody should have a passion for something.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>If you take care of your people, your people will take care of your customers.</p><footer>— Sam Walton (management principle widely attributed)</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li><li><blockquote><p>I learned a long time ago that exercising your ego in public is definitely not the way to build an effective organization.</p><footer>— Sam Walton</footer></blockquote></li></ul>
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