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
opportunity america cost-of-living
We're all working together; that's the secret. And we'll lower the cost of living for everyone, not just in America, but we'll give the world an opportunity to see what it's like to save and have a better lifestyle, a better life for all. We're proud of what we've accomplished ; we've just begun.
keys expectations high-expectations
High expectations is the key to everything.
intuition hard
Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes.
expectations together share
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
unhealthy presses
It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings.
business people leader
Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
years ideas people
"Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making."
walmart
You can learn from everybody.
littles drains bits
Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.
way management treats
The way management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers.
ahead call campus coming early knew leadership learned people sidewalk simplest toward
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.
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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
associates exactly
The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
positive
All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.