168 Quotes by Sam Walton

Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.

If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.

Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart’s phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

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

There is only one boss. The customer.

I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn’t just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street.

We’re all working together; that’s the secret.