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Sam Walton

by John Huey, WALTON · first published 1900

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Why HN recommends it

A firsthand account of building Walmart from a single store, offering practical business lessons and wisdom. It is instructive for entrepreneurs and anyone studying retail strategy or business history.

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Biography & Memoir

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 chronicl

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