WalMart

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Wal-Mart
We Sell for Less
Satisfaction Guaranteed

• Starting on a Dime

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Sam Walton

• Drive Ambitious
• Class Officer, Athlete
• Voted Most Versatile Boy in HS
• Beta Theta Pi Member
• President of College Honors Society-QEBH
• Captain President of an Elite ROTC Organization
• President of a Bible Class in Missouri

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Sam Walton

• Humble
• Does Not Like to Speak of His Accomplishments
• Saved a young boys life

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Work Habits

• Delivered Newspapers Until He Graduated College
• Waited Tables for Meals
• Head Lifeguard
• Worked for J.C. Penneys for 18 months
• A Lieutenant A Captain for the ROTC

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Where It All Began

• Ben Franklin a chain of variety stores
• Before Sam owned the store it made 72,000 a year
• John Dunham, his competitor, was making 150,000
  a year
• In his 1st yr Sam made 105,000 in sales
• The next yr he made 140,000
• And then 175,000

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Where It All Began

• Ben Franklin a chain of variety stores
• Same opened a small department store to beat out
  his competition
• By his 5th year, Sams variety store made
  250,000 in sales per year, turned 30-40,000
  a year in profit

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Time To Start All Over Again

• Sam lost his 2 stores
• He and his family moved out of Newport, Arkansas
• He believed in the saying You can make a
  positive out of most any negative if you work at
  it hard enough
• Sam knew he had to pick himself up start all
  over again, but to do it BETTER!!