Author: Sam Walton

Quotes

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

- Sam Walton

We're all working together; that's the secret.

We're all working together; that's the secret.

- Sam Walton

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

- Sam Walton

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

- Sam Walton

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.

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.

- Sam Walton

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 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.

- Sam Walton

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Sam Walton

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