Sam Walton

Sam Walton

by Sam Walton

6 mentors recommend this 272 pages

Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and achievements. Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style. In a story rich

ISBN: 9780385468473

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Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos

Business & Entrepreneurship

"I have read Sam Walton. I have thought a lot about him. There was a lot to admire in the way that he started Walmart."

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Shane Parrish

Shane Parrish

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"The big lesson I took away from Sam Walton is that you don’t need to come up with all the ideas yourself."

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Gary Keller

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Jamie Dimon

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Kishore Biyani

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"Filled with lessons on retailing and entrepreneurship that are just as relevant today as they were around three decades ago."

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