Sam Walton, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sam Walton comes up
Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
- ▶ 39:08 Shane Parrish He saw what Sam Walton had done with Walmart, taking a concept and spreading it coast to coast. 6 times in the scene
Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers]
- ▶ 31:34 Shane Parrish Sam Walden understood this. 2 times in the scene
Building Great Businesses | Tracy Britt Cool
- ▶ 25:46 Tracy Britt Cool I mean, Sam Walton at Walmart, he was all about the fundamentals, and he was in a store every week, and, you know, multiple stores every week, focused on how do we deliver for our customers more effectively.
Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
- ▶ 24:24 Shane Parrish He'd been reading business books, especially about Sam Walton, the guy who owned one five and dime store in rural Arkansas,
- ▶ 46:43 Shane Parrish By 1991, added Bill Dix to 12 stores using Sam Walton's playbook.
Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:03 Shane Parrish For Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, it took a lot of hard work, a little genius, and one crucial ingredient, theft, or as he preferred to call it, borrowing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:17 Shane Parrish Sam Walton would adopt them for Walmart, and Jim Senegal would perfect them at Costco, all because Saul Price believed the most important thing a leader could do was teach.
- ▶ 36:17 Shane Parrish Then in 1982, Sam Walton returns. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:33 Shane Parrish Sam Walton showed up with a tape recorder.
Estée Lauder: A Success Story
- ▶ 1:04:08 Shane Parrish Sam Walton started the first Walmart at 44.
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 3:00 Shane Parrish In 1869, almost a century before Jeff Bezos was born, and 50 years before Sam Walton and Ikea drew their first brass, there was another name that became synonymous with retailing, Timothy Eaton.
- ▶ 11:25 Shane Parrish This virtuous cycle, which Sam Walton and later Jim Senegal would turn into billion-dollar empires at Walmart and Costco, was tested behind a counter in Toronto a century earlier.
- ▶ 35:05 Shane Parrish That reminded me of something Sam Walton said in his book Made in America.