Sam Walton, Sam Walton
Sam Walton, Sam Walton
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Sam Walton
Made in America

Author: Sam Walton, John Huey

Narrator: Henry Strozier

Unabridged: 10 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/15/2018


Synopsis

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 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liong on February 20, 2023

I read this book because I wanted to know more about business especially opening retail stores. I heard about the entrepreneur, Sam Walton a long time ago and he was the richest man before. This book is telling exciting and untold stories about his business struggle, and his relationship with his fami......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on January 05, 2025

2013-June (updated several times since) Just in case you might not realize it, the huge Walmart corporation was actually started and grown quite large by one main individual and his name was Sam Walton. This book is his personal and business story and I Highly recommended it! My 14 yr. old son and I......more

Goodreads review by Lora on July 29, 2011

Hmm... I honestly don't know what I think about this book. There were some things about Sam Walton and his story that I loved: his enthusiasm, his drive, his sense of humor; and yet there were other things in the book or about his character that puzzled me. For example, the Wal-Mart culture that he......more

Goodreads review by D on July 12, 2017

Sam Walton was definitely the O.G. of retail. As mentioned in Brad Stone's book about Amazon, there's no doubt that Jeff Bezos took a number of pages out of San Walton's playbook. I enjoyed reading about his journey, his hard work and customer-first mentality, and how Wal-Mart completely changed the......more

Goodreads review by Ammit P on August 23, 2024

4.75 ⭐ GENRE - AUTOBIOGRAPHY. PAGES - 346. This book was recommended to me by my Goodreads friend Mr. Patrick Peterson on my review of the book Shoedog. I am obliged to thank him for such a wonderful suggestion. About The book :- This book can be treated as a study material for Logistic and Supply Chain......more