Sam Walton Quotes

It's knowing what you want and why you want it, then keeping your eye on the ball every single time.

Sam Walton says the focus is needed to accomplish your goals because focus provides motivation towards achieving the goal. Without focus, one will not know what they are looking for or why they want it. People who focus on their goals will keep their eye on the ball every single time which means once you focus on something you must stay focused until the goal is accomplished.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

If you become successful in your life, celebrate it. Success is the result of your hard work. But Find Some humor in your failure. A failure is an event in your life for understanding your lackings in detail. It helps you to do the work more effectively and efficiently.

We take the best ideas from someone else.

Sometimes our best idea comes from others. The idea helps us to fulfill our dream and goal. The best idea is something that helps us to achieve desired in its best form. People help us to think and give ideas for our own good. We take the best ideas from someone else.

The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.

The way company management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers. It is an interesting thing. If associates are well treated by their management then they back to it to the customer. Always treat your associates well.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, did pretty well. He set some great expectations for himself and his company. If you don’t aim high, you might achieve it, so aim higher. Have high expectations of yourself, hold yourself to a higher standard, then don’t give up until you achieve it.

You can learn from anybody and everybody.

It means one can learn from anyone and anything and any situation - even from insects, birds, animals, nature, water, sky, etc. Everyone you meet has something valuable to teach you. What you learn from someone might be what not to do, what to do more of, what to change, what to try, etc.