A collection of thoughts and quotes by Sam Walton on business, money, management, belief, customer, leadership, trust, competition, success, vision and wisdom.
43 Motivational Quotes By Sam Walton That Will Guide Your Entrepreneurial Spirit
Samuel Moore Walton was a renowned American entrepreneur and the founder of iconic retail chains, Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. Walton is regarded as one of the most iconic business magnates of all time for his contributions towards a range of innovations in the retail industry and the way he made large departmental store chains a common phenomenon. After having opened retail outlets since the time he was in his 20s, Walton opened the first Wal-Mart in 1962 and he never looked back then. His efforts as a capitalist also won him the ‘Presidential Medal of Freedom’ in 1992 and ‘TIME Magazine’ had also named him among the most influential people of the 20th century. Walton grew to be among the richest persons in the United States and was ranked by ‘Forbes Magazine’ as the richest person in the country during the 1980s. Walton was not only a rich and successful entrepreneur but a philanthropist who supported a number of charitable causes. During his high-profile public life and business endeavors, he delivered many lectures, gave interviews where Walton shared his thoughts and insights on a varied range of issues. We bring to you a compilation of quotes and sayings by Sam Walton on leadership, risk, customers, mistakes, fate, hard work, self-belief and more.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
Sam Walton
We're all working together; that's the secret.
Sam Walton
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Sam Walton
The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
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 will catch the passion from you - like a fever.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
Sam Walton
Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
Sam Walton
One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
Sam Walton
Everything I’ve done I’ve copied from somebody else—and
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
Sam Walton
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
The small stores were just destined to disappear, at least in the numbers they once existed, because the whole thing is driven by the customers, who are free to choose where to shop.
Sam Walton
He proved that people can be motivated. The mountain is there, but somebody else has already climbed it.
Sam Walton
What we guard against around here is people saying, ‘Let’s think about it.’ We make a decision. Then we act on it.
I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
