All Sam Walton Quotes
- If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around… Attitude
- Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea. Everywhere
- Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys. Best
- The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone… Associates
- Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else. Copied
- I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive.… Best
- I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. I don't know if you're… Born
- I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of… Advantage
- I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk… Ahead
- After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency. Been
- Individuals don't win in business, teams do. Business
- Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them. Associates
- I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart. Been
- Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living. Anybody
- The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want Customers
- If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete. Compete
- All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult, All
- Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change. Change
- Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun… All
- ...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough. Any