Sam Walton Quotes
Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
Walton, Sam, and John Huey. Sam Walton: Made in America. Doubleday, 1992, p. 278.
In contrast to the American expansion where individuals went west to settle, the Canadian experience was directed by a central mercantile enterprise for whom the Indians trapped furs and bought merchandise. The Company wanted the Indians to be treated like valuable customers, not competitors for land and territory.
While administering post-war Japan, MacArthur had insisted that women be allowed to vote and run for public office. He succeeded and was informed that a prostitute had been elected to the Japanese Diet with over 200,000 votes:
Samuel Moore Walton was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. grew to be the world's largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest private employer in the world. For a period of time, Walton was the richest man in America.