Sam Walton
Sam Walton
Samuel Moore "Sam" Waltonwas an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth29 March 1918
CityKingfisher, OK
CountryUnited States of America
encouraging succeed fronts
You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.
opportunity ideas listening
I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive. But really, our best ideas usually do come from the folks in the stores. Period.
airplane years
I've owned about 18 airplanes over the years, and I've never bought one of them new.
inspirational picks
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
years opposites long
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.
inspirational years long
I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.
dimes computer
A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
encouragement opportunity people
There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
success encouragement business
Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
stupid made difficult
All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult,
successful giving secret
The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
information-is-power empowering risk
Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.
two differences important
The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign, ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’. They're still up there, and they have made all the difference.
swim way conventional-wisdom
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.