Sam Walton

Words

aggravation and bullheadedness

plain

incentive

harebrained

cockamamy

genial

bumpkins

scavengers

ambushed

envy

haphazardly

down the drain

bragging

Versatile

“dodged the bullet on”

“well-to-do kids”

Routes

Scatterbrained

“ dressed to the nines”

“ I started courting her”

Opinionated

prominent

laggard

dwell

cot

minnow bucket

frugal

extravagances

for chores

“ Dad and I had a pact”

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mposing or interfering

resentment

merchants

sashay
exhilarating

volatile
hauling

long haul

fly-by-night

“with all four feet”

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fraternity

“ for somebody he knew next to nothing about”

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“ It upset me to no end”

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raring to go

“ He'll fight you tooth and toenail at bridge”

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Renegade
over the counter
fret
demise
saturation

disintegrated

“he is not a rubber-stamp manager”

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jot them down

confounded
bias

chintzy

enlightened

window dressing.
resurrectin

brasher
bona fide exodus
comprehend
exodus
velocity
stumbling
caterpillar
sheer passion
dwelled on
startled

Quotes

“How did Wal-Mart do it?" I've usually been flip about answering them. "Friend, we just got
after it and stayed after it," I'd say.”

“The partnership works in a number of different ways. First, it enables us to control Wal-Mart
through the family and keep it together, rather than having it sold off in pieces haphazardly. We
still own 38 percent of the company's stock today, which is an unusually large stake for anyone
to hold in an outfit the size of Wal-Mart ”

“Here's the thing: money never has meant that much to me, not even in the sense of keeping
score. If we had enough groceries, and a nice place to live, plenty of room to keep and feed my
bird dogs, a place to hunt, a place to play tennis, and the means to get the kids good educations
—that's rich. No question about it. And we have it.”
“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.”

“by cutting your price, you can boost your sales to a point where you earn far more at the
cheaper retail price than you would have by selling the item at the higher price. In retailer
language, you can lower your markup but earn more because of the increased volume.”

“Because the way management treats the associates is exactly how the associates will then
treat the customers. ”

“ould run real well this way.

Well, I was no more ready to retire in 1974 at the age of fifty-six than the Arkansas sun is ready
to start rising out of Oklahoma in the morning”

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