Sam Walton: Made In America

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4.6
192 reviews
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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 with anecdotes and the "rules of the road" of both Main Street and Wall Street, Sam Walton chronicles the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to lasso the American Dream.

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4.6
192 reviews
Shardul Surte
May 5, 2023
Business is simple. Put the customer first, last, and everything in between. Sam Walton's sage advice will stand the test of time and will remain true as long as human beings trade with each other. A lot of businesses start focusing on their own problems once they grow big. They ignore the fact that they exist for the customer. It's all downhill from there on and no amount of business wizardry and fancy consulting will help. Every function in a business must ask itself - Does what I am doing help make the customer's life easier, faster, happier, nicer, and does it put a smile on their face? If not, then that function needs to change pronto! Thank you Sam for sharing your life story with us. It inspires us ordinary folk to aspire to do better every which way every day.
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KIM JONG UN HUNTER VITALIK BUTTERIN
November 24, 2023
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Chris B
December 3, 2018
This is a very interesting book and really sheds a lot of light into the world of the retail big box stores. I would recommended this book if you are intrigued about about Walmart came to be and who was Sam Walton. There are pieces of this book that were frustrating to read because of Sam's out of touch nature with his store level "associates"
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About the author

Sam Walton was an American businessman and entrepreneur, best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club.

John Huey 
served as editor-in-chief of Time Inc until 2012. The former editor of The Wall Street Journal/Europe and founding editor of Southpoint magazine, he has long reported on the business world and has profiled many of its leading personalities.

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