Quote

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

Sam Walton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sam Walton
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 29
Died: 1992
Died: April 5
Businessman
Businessperson
Economist
Entrepreneur
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
Samuel Moore Walton
Happiness
Three
Firsts
Matter
Dollar
First
Sell
Things
Sells
Life
Dollars
Four

More quotes by Sam Walton

Image
Do it. Try it. Fix it.
Sam Walton
Image
I've always been driven to buck the system.
Sam Walton
Image
I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something.
Sam Walton
Image
Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
Sam Walton
Image
If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.
Sam Walton
Image
High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton
Image
I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.
Sam Walton
Image
Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.
Sam Walton
Image
A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
Sam Walton
Image
Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
Sam Walton
Image
There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
Sam Walton
Image
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Sam Walton
Image
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
Sam Walton
Image
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
Sam Walton
Image
Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.
Sam Walton
Image
I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.
Sam Walton
Image
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
Sam Walton
Image
I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.
Sam Walton
Image
Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.
Sam Walton
Image
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton