Sam Walton

Sam Walton

29-Mar-1918


United States


Businessman

Sam Walton opened the first Walmart in 1962, after years in the retail management business. The discount chain expanded globally over the next 30 years, growing to become the world's largest company in 2010.

QUOTES BY Sam Walton


Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.”

“Sam Walton: I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.”

“High expectations are the key to everything.”

“I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.”

“Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who’s going to have a great idea.”

“What we guard against around here is people saying, ‘Let’s think about it.’ We make a decision. Then we act on it.”

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

“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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