7 Lessons to Build a Successful Business from Walmart Founder, Sam Walton copy
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- Sam Walton is the founder of Walmart which does more than $500B in sales and has over 2M employees.
- People attribute most of Wal-Mart's success to Sam Walton's virtues.
- Here are 7 lessons I learned from Sam Walton's book: Made in America...
- Believe you can do anything
- "There is no limit to what working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and incentive to do their best."
- "That's how Wal-Mart became Wal-Mart: ordinary people joined together to accomplish extraordinary things."
- Always try to be your best
- "Pursue things you are interested in with a true passion ."
- "I've personally set high goals for myself so I can hold myself accountable to be the best I can be."
- You can learn from everybody
- "Always look for ways to do a better job by learning from others."
- "Most everything I've done I've learned from someone else."
- Stay flexible
- "Constant change is a vital part of the Wal-Mart culture."
- "To succeed, you have to stay out in front of that change."
- Wake up early
- "Time in the early morning is tremendously valuable: it's an uninterrupted time to think and sort things out."
- "Use that time to make a plan and execute on it throughout the working day."
- Think obsessively about your customers
- "The secret of success is to give your customers what they want."
- "Discover something your customer desires, and then deliver it."
- "No business can exist without customers. Make the customer the centerpiece of all his efforts." - Roberto Goizueta
- Build a team
- "At Wal-Mart, everything has been the result of people pulling together to meet one common goal - teamwork."
- "If you want to build an enterprise of any size, it goes without saying that you must create a team of people who work together and give real meaning to a common goal."