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
long limits would-be
I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.
college names people
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.
business educational causes
We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
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.
ideas america trying
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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.
real swimming secret
After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.
successful giving secret
The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want
success creativity unique
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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.
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.
reading learning hands
I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street
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.