Sam Walton Made In America

by Walton, Sam; Huey, John

• ISBN13: 9780553562835
• ISBN10: 0553562835
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Bantam

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Sam Walton was an American businessman and entrepreneur, best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club.

John Huey served as editor-in-chief of Time Inc until 2012. The former editor of The Wall Street Journal/Europe and founding editor of Southpoint magazine, he has long reported on the business world and has profiled many of its leading personalities.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Learning to Value a Dollar	p. 1
Starting on a Dime	p. 14
Bouncing Back	p. 40
Swimming Upstream	p. 60
Raising a Family	p. 86
Recruiting the Team	p. 100
Taking the Company Public	p. 118
Rolling Out the Formula	p. 139
Building the Partnership	p. 161
Stepping Back	p. 183
Creating a Culture	p. 199
Making the Customer Number One	p. 220
Meeting the Competition	p. 241
Expanding the Circles	p. 262
Thinking Small	p. 274
Giving Something Back	p. 298
Running a Successful Company: Ten Rules That Worked for Me	p. 312
Wanting to Leave a Legacy	p. 318
A Postscript	p. 329
Co-Author's Note	p. 333
Index	p. 335
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