Quotes by Sam Walton

About Sam Walton:

Samuel Moore was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club.
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I've never been one to dwell on reverses.

Sam Walton

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.

Sam Walton

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

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.

Sam Walton

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

Sam Walton

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

Sam Walton

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.

Sam Walton

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

Sam Walton

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

Sam Walton

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

Sam Walton

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton

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 wou...

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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

Sam Walton

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

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The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.

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All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

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Author Bio

  • NameSam Walton
  • DescriptionFounder of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club
  • BornMarch 29, 1918
  • DiedApril 5, 1992
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur
  • AwardsPresidential Medal Of Freedom