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Made in America, My Story (Paperback)
by Sam Walton, John Huey
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Author: Sam Walton, John Huey
Publisher: Bantam
Pub. in: May, 1993
ISBN: 0553562835
Pages: 368
Measurements: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.0 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00013
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It's a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there. And it's a story about believing in your idea even when maybe some other folks don't, and about sticking to your guns. – Sam Walton
Sam Walton is a legend in the retail business. Building on core values, he created a whole new business concept that grew to become the largest retailer-the largest company-in the world. How did it happen?
In Made in America, Sam Walton and his writer, a Fortune senior editor, take the reader through a chronological adventure of how a man started with nothing and gradually built an empire. He based everything he did on particular values that really made sense, though they were radical for his time and his industry. Gaining an understanding of those values, their sources, and their impacts, helped me better grasp my own values and business management philosophy.
Sam came up with a lot of innovative ideas, but was unabashed in his drive to glean ideas from his competitors. He had a knack for snatching someone else's idea and growing it into something really significant. Reading about these adventures was fascinating. I couldn't put the book down… and I thought I knew something about Wal-Mart!
Particularly interesting was insight into the unique culture of Wal-Mart and how it was created and nurtured. Educational, inspirational, stimulating. A great read! (From quoting Roger Herman, USA)
Target readers:
Entrepreneurs, executives, managers, professionals, MBAs and all the other people who dream to start up his own dream business.
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From the Publisher:
Meet 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 20th century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here finally, Sam Walton tells his extraordinary story in his own inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure of 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.
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This is a funny thing to do, this looking back on your life trying to figure out how all these pieces came together. I guess anybody would find it a little strange, but it’s really odd for somebody like me because I’ve never been a very reflective fellow, never been one to dwell in the past. If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete. The passion has pretty much kept me on the go, looking ahead to the next store visit, or the next store opening, or the next merchandising item I personally wanted to promote out in those stores – like a minnow bucket or a Thermos bottle or a mattress pad or a big bag of candy.
As I do look back though, I realize that ours is a story about the kinds of traditional principles that made America great in the first place. It’s a story about entrepreneurship, the risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there. And it’s a story about believing in your idea even maybe some other folks don’t, and about sticking to your guns. But I think more than anything it proves there’s absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary working people can accomplish if they’re given the opportunity and the encouragement and the incentive to do their best. Because that’s how Wal-Mart became Wal-Mart: ordinary people joined together to accomplish extraordinary things. At first, we amazed ourselves. And before too long, we amazed everybody else, especially folks who thought America was just too complicated and sophisticated a place for this sort of thing to work anymore.
Now, when it comes to Wal-Mart, there’s no two ways about it: I’m cheap. I think it’s a real statement that Wal-Mart never bought a jet until we were approaching $40 billion in sales and expanded as far away as California and Maine, and even they had to practically tie me up and hold me down to do it. On the road, we sleep two to a room, although as I’ve gotten older I have finally started staying in my own room. We stay in Holiday Inn and Ramada Inns and Day Inns (MSL remarks: these are all economic hotels in America), and we eat a lot at family restaurant – when we have time to eat. A lot of what goes on these days with high-flying companies and these overpaid CEO’s, who’re really just looting from the top and aren’t watching out for anybody but themselves, really upsets me. It’s one of the main things wrong with American business today.
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H. Ross Perot, USA
<2006-12-20 00:00>
Every person who dreams of building a great business must read this book. Sam Walton set the standard for listening to the customers and listening to the people who do the work. In addition to being a great entrepreneur and business leader, Sam Walton was, above all, a fine, decent, kind, generous man. |
Detroit Free Press, USA
<2006-12-20 00:00>
Here is an extraordinary success story about a man whose empire was built not with smoke and mirrors, but with good old-fashioned elbow grease. |
The New York Times Book Review, USA
<2006-12-20 00:00>
A sure-fire all-American success story. |
San Francisco Chronicle, USA
<2006-12-20 00:00>
[A] wise and inspiring autobiography - Walton tells his quietly fantastic story with conviction and makes no bones about his mistakes. |
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