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.
7 comments
lewiso
24 Jul 17#7
Thanks OP, heard good things about this book
Gallus
24 Jul 17#6
Wallyworld.
No thanks
Fifteen15
24 Jul 17#5
Love this book. Easily one of the best books for entrepreneurs imo.
There's a reason why some people are poor, and it has nothing to do with everyone else.
Shard
24 Jul 17#4
Interesting reading, considering that American salaries have to be a lot higher than ours to cope with health insurance, a wage of $7.25 is pretty bad
Ah, the modern day folk hero who destroyed countless small businesses and left his employees needing food stamps.
zizzles
24 Jul 17#2
Who would?
Maverick77
23 Jul 17#1
Would highly recommend in this book it was written at a time when Wallmarts were being built in small towns and causing the closure of small businesses in the area, the book was published to change the perception of what people thought of Sam Walton and wallmart as a company. At doing this it is very good not only does Sam himself come across as an all American family man and hero but the principles of business laid out within its pages are still used in business to this day.
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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.
7 comments
No thanks
There's a reason why some people are poor, and it has nothing to do with everyone else.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/04/walmart_employees_on_food_stamps_their_wages_aren_t_enough_to_get_by.html