If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. - Michael Jordan
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
Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song. - Sam Walton
Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself. - Sam Walton
The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys. - Sam Walton
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long. - Sam Walton
I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I did that in college. I did it when I carried my papers. 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. Before long, I probably knew more students than anybody in the university, and they recognized me and considered me their friend. - Sam Walton
Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable. - Sam Walton
We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are. - Sam Walton
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. - Thomas Edison
One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful people take action. - Bob Proctor
Science and psychology have isolated that one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself. - Bob Proctor
Once you make the decision you will find all the people, resources, and ideas you need every time. - Bob Proctor
There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose. - Charles M. Schwab
A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interested, provided that he will take more thought about his job than the men working with him. The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things. - Charles M. Schwab
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