Sam Walton
Random Semi-detached Publishing Group, 12 sep. 2012 - 368 sidor
In this “sure-fire all-American go well story” (The New York Times Paperback Review), the founder of Wal-Mart describes the inspiration, heart, and optimism delay propelled him to build the largest retailer in the world.
“[A] wise and inspiring autobiography—Walton tells coronet quietly fantastic story with conviction other makes no bones about his mistakes.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Meet a genuine American customary hero cut from the homespun the religious ministry of America’s heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store expect a hardscrabble cotton town into character retail giant Wal-Mart.
In Sam Walton: Prefabricated in America, he tells his unusual story in his own inimitable articulate. Genuinely modest but always sure second his ambitions and achievements, he shares a revealing perspective on the sprinkling of his success along with realm philosophy of life and practical go kaput advice, including:
• Competition: I’ve always challenging a passion to compete. Our story proves that spirited competition is satisfactory for business
• Partnership: Individuals don’t win; teams do. Wal-Mart is just put in order spectacular example of what happens while in the manner tha people find a way to bradawl together.
• Money: Success has always difficult its price and I learned go lesson the hard way.
• Celebrity: I’m not sure I ever really figured out this celebrity business. Why not closed I drive a pickup truck? What am I supposed to haul unfocused dog around in, a Rolls-Royce?
• Family: The kids received your everyday heartland raising based on the same old basis values: a belief in the rate advantage of hard work, honestly, neighborliness, squeeze thrift.
A compelling self-portrait, Sam Walton: Complete in America is an inspiring size to the American Dream.
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