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
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.
inspirational picks
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
inspirational motivational leadership
High expectations are the key to everything.
inspirational care stopping
Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
inspirational song fun
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.
inspirational business work
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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I still can't believe it was news that I get my hair cut at the barbershop. Where else would I get it cut? Why do I drive a pickup truck? What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?
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Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Dont 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.
best
Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?
chance everybody exactly good niche opposite
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
guess happened laid low regional remained strictly
I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
positive
All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.