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Summary: A great story about a great man.
Review: Sam Walton knew the price of success and paid it. He changed retailing forever. He also made himself a billionaire and made millionaires of many others who shared his dream. But the greatest value of this book to me is its inspiration. Sam's "Ten Rules That Worked For Me" will work of anybody. You can run a company or a life by them. Anybody who becomes the country's richest man is worth listening to. He'll make you a believer.
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Summary: learning the sucess
Review: Sam Walton nos mostra neste apaixonante livro como ser vitorioso no mundo dos negócios. Através de sua fabulosa história aprendemos que qualquer grande empresa é construida sobretudo com trabalho árduo, bons parceiros no negócio e preocupação com todos os funcionários.
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Summary: Great Business Strategies Book
Review: Sam Walton truely gives us a great model on how to run a business in Made in America. It is not so much the autobiography of Sam but the autobiograph of the Wal-Mart Corporation. This book give a great model for how to try to get big in business and still remain small. Sam Walton used his knowledge along with many ideas from other companies to form what Wal-Mart is today. These and many other strategies for running a business are all included in this book. I feel that this would be a great book for a class on general business. It gives great ideas on how to run a business weather it is big or small.
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Summary: A Self Made Billionaire
Review: Sam Walton was a self made billionaire. That is billion with a b (not million). He got rich by creating WalMart. This is the true story of Sams life, AND the creation and life of WalMart. From when nobody even heard of them, to today when they are the biggest. Read about this mans life, and how it was that he lived this incredible adventure to create something so large, and become so wealthy in the process. Sam had incredible talent. He wasnt born a billionaire. Nobody gave him a blueprint to follow. He did it all on his own. Building what wasnt there before he came along to build it. Very inspiring book. The lame cover turned me off initially, but finally I gave the book a chance, and I am glad that I did. Not only is this book intersting, but it also spurs ideas for being an entrepreneur. I am already on the way to my first billion.
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Summary: a person dreaming of becoming the nations largest retailer
Review: Sam Walton was always competitive. Before building his retail empire he worked at a JC Penney store and then worked at a Ben Franklin Store. He wanted to become the largest retailer in the nation instead his retail store became the largest in the world. At first his store was named Walton 5-10 but he changed it to Wal-Mart. He did have another store as well called Sams wholesale club but was shortened to Sams Club. Sams Club is the largest warehouse store while Wal-Mart is the largest retail store. I wont say anymore about his stores but he had a dream and his dream came true. There is also a Wal-Mart cheer and he has rules for following a business. He followed those rules and it worked for him. The point is he had a dream and it came true. I mean not anyone can build the largest retial opperation in the world. If you really believe in yourself it just might come true. There are eighteen chapters in this book. Here are the chapters in order:
*Contents
*Acknowledgements*Forward
1 Learning to Value a Dollar
2 Starting on a Dime
3 Bouncing Back
4 Swimming Upstream
5 Raising a Family
6 Recuiting the Team
7 Taking the Company Public
8 Rolling Out the Formula
9 Building the Partnership
10 Stepping Back
11 Creating a Culture
12 Making the Costumer Number One
13 Meeting the Competition
14 Expanding the Circles
15 Thinking Small
16 Giving Something Back
17 Running a Successful Company:Ten Rules That Worked for Me
18 Wanting to Leave a Legacy
*A Prostscript
*Co-Author's Note
*Index
Well those are the 18 chapters that Sam Walton himself and John Huey wrote. Its pretty much all about Sam Waltons life and his success behind it. Its a great book even if you don't like the guy or his stores. It also gives you good advice on making a business. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves Wal-Mart and/or wants to know more about business.
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Summary: 5 stars is not good enough it should be 7 stars
Review: the best book i have ever read an amazing story about a man with a dream
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Summary: Got a little dull after a while.
Review: The book certainly made me more sympathetic to Mr. Walton, and made me admire the incredible hard work that he put into his business. I like Wal-Mart and think its success is deserved. But a lot of the book's chapters were just laundry lists of "Then we opened store #140... then our revenues topped $10 billion.... then I fired this guy and replaced him with that guy...". There were some fun anecdotes about successes and failures that Wal-Mart had along the way (like the exploding watermelons and donkey piss!) -- but not enough of them. Walton doesn't share much personal stuff, either -- and frankly I wonder what kind of family life he had, considering his unbelievable workaholism and stinginess. Anyway, for the last third of the book I was just skimming.
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Summary: Excelent Book
Review: The book shows the exact history of the construction of one of the most big retailer companys in the world, in a simple language.
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Summary: Made in America
Review: The late Sam Walton was one of the shrewdest and richest merchants in America. Centered on the building of his Wal-Mart empire, his book, like fellow magnate Sandra Kurtzig's CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from Ground Up ( LJ 5/1/91), is light on biography. However, readers will enjoy the folksy narrative of the small-town millionaire who revolutionized retail distribution. Walton also addresses accusations against him, such as running the competition out of town. Coauthor Huey does a fine job of incorporating candid testimonials from family members and associates, who thought Walton's ideas were sometimes silly. Shortly after Walton's death, the book was given an overly sentimental postscript (a minor detraction) and rushed into print. Highly recommended for public and academic business collections.
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Summary: buy american??????????????
Review: the walmart family should read this book,
sam walton had some great ideas, but i think the family distroyed his dream,go to walmart and see the buy american idea
good luck finding american made goods,walton family should be ashamed!!!!
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