Sam Walton: Made in America

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I've never talked about any of this stuff before, but I'm going to go all the way and try to teli my story. It is a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there. And it's a story about believing in your idea even when maybe somé other folks don't, and about sticking to your guns.
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 hardscrab-ble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. Combine the pluck and luck of Horatio Alger, the wit of Will Rogers, the promotional verve of P. T. Barnum, and the charm of Professor Harold Hill and you'll dis-cover the powerful personality of Sam Walton. An undis-puted Captain of Commerce, Sam never lost the common touch-he reveled in it.
Here, finally, Sam Walton telis his extraordinary story in his own inimitable words, sharing a revealing... Tovább

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I've never talked about any of this stuff before, but I'm going to go all the way and try to teli my story. It is a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there. And it's a story about believing in your idea even when maybe somé other folks don't, and about sticking to your guns.
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 hardscrab-ble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. Combine the pluck and luck of Horatio Alger, the wit of Will Rogers, the promotional verve of P. T. Barnum, and the charm of Professor Harold Hill and you'll dis-cover the powerful personality of Sam Walton. An undis-puted Captain of Commerce, Sam never lost the common touch-he reveled in it.
Here, finally, Sam Walton telis his extraordinary story in his own inimitable words, sharing a revealing perspective on the elements of his success. Genuinely modest, but always sure of his ambitions and achievements, Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulderstyle.
Sam Walton: Made in America is peppered with his phi-losophy of life and practical business advice, including:
• COMPETITION I've always had a passión to compete. Our story proves that spirited competition is good for business.
• PARTNERSHIP Individuals don't win; teams do. Wal-Mart is just a spectacular example of what happens when people find a way to work together-where almost four hun-dred thousand people have come together as a group like this, with a real feeling of partnership, and have been able, for the most part, to put the needs of their individual egos behind the needs of their team
• MONEY Success has always had its price and I learned that lesson the hard way when Forbes named me the so-called richest man in America. The next thing we knew all these reporters and photographers arrived, I guess to take pictures of me diving into a swimming pool full of money they imagined
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I had, or to watch me light big fat cigars with hundred-dollar bilis while the hootchy-kootchy girls danced by the lake.
• CELEBRITY I'm not sure I ever really figured out this celebrity business. Why in the world, for example, would I get an invitation to Elizabeth Taylor's wedding out in Hollywood? Why do I drive a pickup truck? What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?
• FAMILY Though Helen bore more than her share, through our combined efforts the kids received your everyday heartland upbringing based on the same old bedrock values: a belief in the importance of hard work, honesty, neighbor-liness, and thrift.
In this compelling self-portrait Sam Walton communi-cates the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to lasso the American Dream. Chockablock with rich anecdotes and the "rules of the road" of both Main Street and Wall Street, the wisdom of Sam Walton: Made in America will endure and serve others well for generations to come. Vissza