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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: Great Book
Review: Mr. Sam's book is an excellent look into the dedication, leadership, and hard work that made Wal-Mart the most successful company in the history of the world. He teaches the reader about the basic values of money, hard work, and family. At the same time, he gives insight into some of the details about starting and running a retail enterprise. All throughout the book, he interjects little stories about getting caught with tape recorders in the competition's store, or flying around with his hunting dogs to look at potential Wal-Mart land sites. This book was not only a great series of lessons on entrepreneurship and management, but it was also very entertaining and at times funny. It was amazing to read about Mr. Sam's predictions when he wrote the book (10+ years ago) and to see how contemporary Wal-Mart has far surpassed even Mr. Sam's wildest dreams of success. I recently visited the museum in Bentonville, AR. This book was an excellent supplement to that trip. Reading this book and visiting the Wal-Mart visitor's center in Bentonville are highly recommended for any Wal-Mart fan or any business fan as well.
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Summary: simple, down-to-earth basics
Review: sam walton gives a simple and almost humorous edge to how to make your business give you good returns. i thoroughly enjoyed every bit of the book and i must admit that my own copy of the book has been bookmarked on almost every page!entrepreneurs can get going with the principles this great business man outlined in 'made in america'.
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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: A Retailing Bible For Just Seven Bucks
Review: Think about it. A small time variety store retailer out of Bentonville Arkansas creates the most power retailing jaggernaut of all time, and right in the faces of powerhouses like Sears, K-Mart and JC Penny. If you are in any kind of a business with customers, you will benefit from this book, and experiencing the laser like focus Sam had on delivering the absolute best in his stores. Walton is to retailing what Jordon was to basketball, an absolute master of his art. I read this book several years ago, and as a retailer, I still refer to it, as much for the specific business tactics as to remind myself as to how Sam thought about things, and how he managed his people. An absolute classic.
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Summary: Ghost written in India?
Review: My copy of this book has many spelling and grammatical errors. It is if this was ghost written in another language and then put through a translator who had no idea of how American English sounds. Also, when I went to my local Wal Mart to fact check the book, all the American flags were made in countries other than the US!
What a disgrace!!
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Summary: Not Made in America
Review: Wouldn't Sam Walton be rolling over in his grave to find out how little that is sold at Wal-Mart now is actually made in America? Have you noticed they don't use that marketing ploy any longer? And what about the numerous jobs in the US that have been lost due to Wal-Mart's policy that requires that US companies (who want to do business with Wal-Mart) sell things so cheaply to them that the company has to have things made overseas to make a profit. Has anyone in your family lost a job to an overseas or non-US company? If so, think again about Wal-Mart and truly buy something that was MADE IN AMERICA!!!!!!
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Summary: Hard Work & Common Sense
Review: What initially attracted me to this book was the title, Sam Walton: Made In America. I was curious if Sam would be about "buying American" or selling American-made products in his Wal-Mart stores.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the book was an easy to read publication about his personal history, about how the discount giant, Wal-Mart, came into being.
The book covers his early life in retailing - a single department store - through his final years, when Wal-Mart had become a discount giant. In between are his experiences, which include failures as well as success, and the methods he used to achieve his success.
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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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Summary: Wal-Mart Making the World Better
Review: All the things we love about Wal_Mart/SAMS - the beaming elderly people who stand by the shopping carts and "welcome" you, the ubiquitous blue vests that adorn the multitudes of happy employees, the inspiring and cutting edge blue/red color scheme, the groundbreaking RFID initiative which will enable them to sell us plastic flora and Great Value hot links even cheaper, the $5 flannel shirts made in Chile, the $29 DVD player made by those energetic little toddlers in the sweatshops of China, the 25 gallon can of fruit cocktail, the humongous parking lot, and generally the company's magical ability to completely strip your town of everything that once made it special, and of course, the fact that the founder always drove a pick-up truck (that one always brings a tear to my eye) - will soon be available to everyone in the universe. I look forward to the day when we are all wearing that glorious blue vest and congregating at the McDonald's or Auntie Mae's up front during our 2 minute break periods. From the desperate illegal workers who are forced to work long hours and not allowed to leave, to the beautiful little children of South America and Asia who toil to provide Americans with their $1 photo frames and $5 musical keyboards, to the customers who walk the aisles waiting for their $19.99 oil change to be finished, Wal Mart is bringing the world closer together.
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