Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club. Read full biography of Sam Walton →
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.
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
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... →
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
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... →
All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.