Top 100 Quotes About Sam Walton: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Sam Walton

#1. Sam Walton said, 'It takes 20 years to be an overnight success.

#2. What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed.

Jack Welch

#3. Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

Michael Bergdahl

#4. Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'

Bill Dedman

#5. Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

Michael Bergdahl

#6. At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

Michael Bergdahl

#7. Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.

Tadashi Yanai

#8. Wal-Mart, we've been known for many years - back to the days of when Sam Walton started the company - we've been known for basics. The basic need of families and people across America. Wal-Mart was known as the place for basics.

Mike Duke

#9. At Wal-Mart, it goes back to Sam Walton and the foundation and business model that we simply operate for less, or everyday low cost. We're known for operating in a very efficient way and then giving those savings to customers.

Mike Duke

#10. Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

Michael Bergdahl

#11. Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.

Michael Bergdahl

#12. At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.

David Walton

#13. I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.

Jo Walton

#14. A well crafted life is like a good poem. What is left out tells others every bit as much about you as what is added in.

Eric Vance Walton

#15. Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

Sam Walton

#16. I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

Walton Goggins

#17. a Libra. Balanced. Diplomatic. Even-tempered.

Leslye Walton

#18. Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

Sam Walton

#19. Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

Izaak Walton

#20. Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

Sam Walton

#21. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.

Sam Walton

#22. It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Sam Walton

#23. The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.

Jo Walton

#24. Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture.

John H. Walton

#25. I'm wise enough to realize that I'm not nearly wise enough.

Eric Vance Walton

#26. I'm trying to think how I impressed my wife. We had an on-stage kiss, and I really went for it. Because I liked her. Usually you can get away with it being just technical, but it was a problem when I ended up kissing my wife on the set. I'd say I stopped acting and kissed her on set.

David Walton

#27. It's funny how when your kids get sick, they get even cuter when they have a stuffed nose and they mouth breathe.

David Walton

#28. It's just nice to be employed.

David Walton

#29. Gabe pulled her closer. You just lean on me, Vivi. I'll keep us both upright for a while.

Leslye Walton

#30. And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.

Donna Tartt

#31. Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.

Nancy Bird Walton

#32. It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

Rob Walton

#33. I still don't know if you understand!" "That everyone is of equal significance and that the differences between individuals are more important than the differences between broad classes? Oh yes, I'm coming to understand that really well." I

Jo Walton

#34. If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going ... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.

Rob Walton

#35. Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.

Sam Walton

#36. Why would you be given wings if you weren't meant to fly?

Leslye Walton

#37. There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.

Jo Walton

#38. There's only one force that's strong enough to conquer those in Witch House, and you know how to manipulate it; you turned one current off and the other on. It was the very best kind of distraction."
He said, "Love always is.

Evangeline Walton

#39. Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.

Sam Walton

#40. May her memory be a blessing.

Jo Walton

#41. Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open.

Jo Walton

#42. if there are books perhaps it won't be all that bad.

Jo Walton

#43. In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

Bill Walton

#44. To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.

Karen Walton

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

Sam Walton

#46. Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.

Rob Walton

#47. I lived in Koreatown for five years, and I lived blocks away from about seven karaoke bars.

David Walton

#48. I am not a man in decent shape.

David Walton

#49. You can go to a history class with one teacher and want to stick a pencil in your throat, and then go to another teacher who is able to contextualize it or deliver the message in a way that you're riveted.

Walton Goggins

#50. Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage.

Leslye Walton

#51. That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

Izaak Walton

#52. A rose, with the motto Dum spiro spero, which actually I rather like - while I breathe I shall hope.

Jo Walton

#53. There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.

Sam Walton

#54. I'm not jaded yet. I'm still at the point where, if someone comes up to me with great energy, I'm happy to meet them.

David Walton

#55. Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

Walton Goggins

#56. I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.

Walton Goggins

#57. I really enjoy what I do, and I'm very grateful to be given an opportunity to do it. That's one thing that people can say about me.

Walton Goggins

#58. Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Sam Walton

#59. Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.

Jo Walton

#60. There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.

Jo Walton

#61. There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

John T. Walton

#62. My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around ... or has allowed ME to change my life around.

Rob Walton

#63. Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.

Sam Walton

#64. Faith is the womb in which all worthwhile and spectacular things have ever been born.

Eric Vance Walton

#65. His heart line was long and curved, and she traced it with her eyes over and over again. A person with a curved heart line was a person capable of great warmth and kindness, a person willing to give their whole selves to love, no matter the cost.

Leslye Walton

#66. Yet I felt he was innocent in a way I was not, that I knew more about evil than he ever could, because he had parents who loved him and wanted the best for him, while I had grown up with Mummy.

Jo Walton

#67. She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

Leslye Walton

#68. It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.

Helen Walton

#69. I wonder why I haven't seen that before."
"Maybe you just needed someone to help you see the parts that aren't so obvious.

Leslye Walton

#70. What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be my friend, and why couldn't we have sex as well if we wanted to? (And used contraception.)

Jo Walton

#71. One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

Jo Walton

#72. I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.

Jim Walton

#73. I think, just the exhilaration of flying. The freedom of the air. The freedom of flight. And you completely remove yourself from the world. And you can voluntarily remove yourself from all those ... everything that's near and dear to you. And you voluntarily return.

Nancy Bird Walton

#74. What made him imagine he could have a dialogue with them?" "He's Sokrates," I said. "He's like a two-year-old sticking pencils in his ear," she said.

Jo Walton

#75. It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really speaks exactly what they're feeling.

David Walton

#76. Books as objects are not what books are, it's not what's important about them

Jo Walton

#77. Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

Sam Walton

#78. Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.

David Walton

#79. I was small but slow as a college tackle.

S. Robson Walton

#80. I wanted you, precious reader, to feel the pain of the bullied, the neglected, the heartbroken, and the humiliated.

K.M. Walton

#81. I acknowledged Gabe and his attempts at flight the way a legless child might view a hopeful but misguided parent buying a house full of stairs. After a while, when Gabe offered me a morning greeting, it didn't feel like he was greeting me but rather a giant pair of wings; no girl, just feathers.

Leslye Walton

#82. Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

Bill Walton

#83. That's the concept of superposition," Jean said. "Being in more than one place, or more than one state, at the same time.

David Walton

#84. The knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.

Jo Walton

#85. There's something nice about out-and-out children's books with no sex and a happy ending - Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.

Jo Walton

#86. What you can't pay back you pay forward.

Jo Walton

#87. Mesopotamian literature is concerned about the jurisdiction of the various gods in the cosmos with humankind at the bottom of the heap, the Genesis account is interested in the jurisdiction of humankind over the rest of creation as a result of the image of God in which people were created.

John H. Walton

#88. Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

Bill Walton

#89. There will always be some who see excellence and envy it instead of striving to emulate it.

Jo Walton

#90. Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game!

Bill Walton

#91. This school is enough to make anyone a communist.

Jo Walton

#92. Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.

David Walton

#93. You couldn't get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you're connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you're not connected to anything.

Jo Walton