Sam Walton Quotes
Top 82 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sam Walton
Sam Walton Famous Quotes & Sayings
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He proved that people can be motivated. The mountain is there, but somebody else has already climbed it.
The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.
Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.
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.
What we guard against around here is people saying, 'Let's think about it.' We make a decision. Then we act on it.
Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.
It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.
I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.
Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
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.
Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.
One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.
If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them - not that they are working for you.
A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
The way management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers.
If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.
There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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.
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.