Sam Walton Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.”

“Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.”

“The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.”

“Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.”

“Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.”

“Capital isn't scarce; vision is.”

“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.”

“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 everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.”

“I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.”