{"id":7530,"date":"2022-06-29T05:39:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T05:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/?p=7530"},"modified":"2022-08-10T10:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T10:44:49","slug":"20-amazing-stats-and-facts-about-sam-walton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/stats-facts\/20-amazing-stats-and-facts-about-sam-walton\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Amazing Stats and Facts About Sam Walton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sam-Walton.png\" alt=\"Sam Walton\" title=\"Sam Walton\" class=\"wp-image-7531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sam-Walton.png 697w, https:\/\/www.helloleads.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sam-Walton-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. About Sam Walton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Samuel Moore Walton<\/strong>&nbsp;was an American businessman and\nentrepreneur best known for founding Walmart&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sam\u2019s Club retailers.&nbsp;<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. Born on :<\/strong> Mar 29, 1918, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Parents Name :<\/strong> &nbsp;Thomas Gibson Walton and Nancy Lee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4. Education : <\/strong>University of Missouri&nbsp;(BS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5. Business : <\/strong>Founder of&nbsp;Walmart&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sam&#8217;s Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6. First Job :<\/strong> He did various chores to meet financial ends. He milked the cow, bottled and supplied to customers, and used to deliver <strong><em>Columbia Daily Tribune<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em>newspaper in addition to a magazine subscription. During his college days, he used to work as a waiter in exchange for meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7.<\/strong> After Graduating from college, he joined the<strong>J. C. Penney<\/strong>&nbsp;as a <strong>management trainee<\/strong> in&nbsp;Des Moines, Iowa,with a monthly wage of $75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8. Military Career : <\/strong>He served as a captain in the U.S Military Intelligence Corps Unit at the time of World War II(1942-1945).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9. First store :<\/strong> After leaving the military in 1945, with help of a $20000 loan from his father-in-law and $5000 of his own money, he purchased a Ben Franklin variety store which is the franchise of the Butler Brothers&nbsp;chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10. First Walmart Store :<\/strong> The first true&nbsp;Walmart&nbsp;opened on July 2, 1962, at 719 West Walnut Street in&nbsp;Rogers, Arkansas which is also known as the Wal-Mart Discount City store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>11. First Sam\u2019s Club : <\/strong>In 1983, he launched the first Sams Club, which was aimed at small-business owners and others who wished to buy merchandise in bulk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>12.<\/strong> Walmart had become the <strong>third-largest retailer in the United States<\/strong> in 1987, trailing Sears and Kmart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>13.<\/strong> Walton kept <strong>prices and salaries low<\/strong> but nevertheless inspired company <strong>loyalty in employees<\/strong>, who retired <strong>with comfortable pensions<\/strong> as a result of his profit-sharing plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>14.<\/strong> He stepped down as <strong>CEO<\/strong> in 1988 but remained as a company <strong>chairman<\/strong> of Walmart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>15.<\/strong> During his lifetime, He opened <strong>1,735 Wal-Marts, 212 Sam\u2019s Clubs, and 13 Supercenters <\/strong>with a total of 380,000 employees and almost $50 billion in annual sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>16. Honors and Recognition : <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&nbsp;He was included in&nbsp;<strong><em>Time<\/em>&#8216;s<\/strong>&nbsp;list of <strong>100 most influential people of the 20th Century<\/strong> in 1998.<\/li><li>He received <strong>the&nbsp;Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/strong>&nbsp;from then-President&nbsp;George H. W. Bush in <strong>Mar 1992<\/strong>.<\/li><li><strong><em>Forbes<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;ranked Sam Walton as the <strong>richest person<\/strong> in the United States from 1982 to 1988<\/li><li>At the&nbsp;University of Arkansas, <strong>Sam M. Walton College of Business<\/strong> is named in his honor.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Walton was inducted into the <strong>Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame<\/strong> in 1992.<\/li><li>He was voted as \u201cpermanent president\u201d of the class upon graduating in 1940.<\/li><li>He was voted as \u201cMost versatile boy\u201d upon graduating fromDavid H. Hickman High School&nbsp;in Columbia.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>17. Wife and Children : <\/strong>Helen Robson(wife) and had 4 children: &nbsp;Samuel Robson, John Thomas,&nbsp;James Car, and&nbsp;Alice Louise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>18. Died on :<\/strong> Apr 5, 1992, at the age of 74 of&nbsp;multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer in Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>19.<\/strong> Walton family took a hit in May 2022, with a loss of $19 billion, falling 11 percent in New York City Wall Street trading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>20. Quotes :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>There is only one boss &#8211; the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. About Sam Walton Samuel Moore Walton&nbsp;was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for founding Walmart&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sam\u2019s Club retailers.&nbsp; 2. Born on : Mar 29, 1918, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, US. 3. Parents Name : &nbsp;Thomas Gibson Walton and Nancy Lee 4. Education : University of Missouri&nbsp;(BS) 5. 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