Samuel Moore “Sam” Walton (1918–92) was an American businessman and entrepreneur born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam’s Club. Sam Walton was born to Thomas Gibson Walton and Nancy Lee, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. There, he lived with his parents on their farm until 1923. Sam’s father decided farming did not generate enough income on which to raise a family and decided to go back to a previous profession of farm mortgaging, working for his brother’s Walton Mortgage Company, which served as an agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance where he repossessed farms during the Great Depression.
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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few wellchosen, welltimed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.
—Sam Walton
Topics: Encouragement
I had no vision of the scope of what I would start.
But 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.
—Sam Walton
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
—Sam Walton
Topics: Leadership, Leaders
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.
—Sam Walton
Topics: Potential, Possibilities
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