1、Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
沃伦-巴菲特，波克夏·哈萨威公司行政总裁
2、When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead。
如果你为别人的看法而活，那你已经死了。
Carios Slim Helu, CEO of Telmex, America Movil, Grupo Carso
卡洛斯-斯利姆-埃卢，墨西哥电信巨头
3、I just love it when people say I can’t do it, there’s nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn’t going to make it。
我就喜欢做别人说我干不了的事儿，因为在我的一生中，总是会有人来说，我干不了这个干不了那个。而当我真正做成了，这种感觉就太棒了 。
Ted Turner, Founder of CNN
泰德-特纳，CNN(美国有线电视新闻网)创始人
4、If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars。
如果你能数得清自己有多少钱，那你肯定不是亿万富翁。
J. Paul Getty, Founder of Getty Oil Company
保罗-格蒂，格蒂石油公司创始人
5、Only those who are asleep make no mistakes。
人只有在睡觉时才不犯错。
Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA
英瓦尔-坎普拉德，宜家创始人
6、We’re going where no one has gone before. There’s no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting。
我们要去别人从没去过的地方。没有模式可以模仿，没有东西可以复制。这就是魅力所在。
Richard Branson, Chairman of Virgin Group
理查德-布兰森，维京集团主席
7、You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new。
你不能只是问顾客需要什么，然后根据他们的需要来生产。你会发现，当你生产出来的时候，顾客又想要别的新东西了。
Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple
史蒂夫-乔布斯，苹果公司联合创始人
8、You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed。
你梦想成为什么样的人，你就能成为什么样的.人。你今时今日所处的位置都是基于你所信赖和梦想的一切。
Oprah Winfrey, CEO of Oprah Winfrey Network
奥普拉-温弗瑞，脱口秀女王
9、We’re all working together; that’s the secret。
成功的秘诀就是大家要一起努力。
Sam Walton, Founder of Walmart
山姆-沃尔顿，沃尔玛的创始人
10、The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows。
商业的秘密就是知道别人不知道的事情。
Aristotle Onassis, Greek Shipping Magnate
亚里士多德-奥纳西斯，希腊船王
11、As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do。
随着我渐渐变老，我越来越少在意人们在说些什么。我只观察他们做什么。
Andrew Carnegie, Founder of Carnegie Steel Company
安德鲁-卡内基，卡内基钢铁公司，被誉为“钢铁大王”。
1. Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
规则一：永远别输钱。规则二：永远别忘了规则一。沃伦-巴菲特
2. When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead。
如果你为别人的看法而活，那你已经死了。卡洛斯-斯利姆-埃卢，墨西哥电信巨头
3. I just love it when people say I can’t do it, there’s nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn’t going to make it。
我就喜欢做别人说我干不了的事儿，因为在我的.一生中，总是会有人来说，我干不了这个干不了那个。而当我真正做成了，这种感觉就太棒了。泰德-特纳，CNN(美国有线电视新闻网)创始人
4. If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars。
如果你能数得清自己有多少钱，那你肯定不是亿万富翁。保罗-格蒂，格蒂石油公司创始人
5. Only those who are asleep make no mistakes。
人只有在睡觉时才不犯错。英瓦尔-坎普拉德，宜家创始人
6. We’re going where no one has gone before. There’s no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting。
我们要去别人从没去过的地方。没有模式可以模仿，没有东西可以复制。这就是魅力所在。理查德-布兰森，维京集团主席
7. You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new。
你不能只是问顾客需要什么，然后根据他们的需要来生产。你会发现，当你生产出来的时候，顾客又想要别的新东西了。史蒂夫-乔布斯，苹果公司联合创始人
8. You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed。你梦想成为什么样的人，你就能成为什么样的人。你今时今日所处的位置都是基于你所信赖和梦想的一切。
奥普拉-温弗瑞，脱口秀女王
9. We’re all working together; that’s the secret。
成功的秘诀就是大家要一起努力。山姆-沃尔顿，沃尔玛的创始人
10. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do。
随着我渐渐变老，我越来越少在意人们在说些什么。我只观察他们做什么。安德鲁-卡内基，卡内基钢铁公司，被誉为“钢铁大王”。
Contrary to popular belief, Sam Walton (the founder of Wal-Mart) was not from Arkansas. He was actually born in Kingfish, Oklahoma on March 29, 1918. He was raised in Missouri where he worked in his father's store while attending school. This was his first retailing experience and he really enjoyed it. After graduating from the University of Missouri in 1940, he began his own career as a retail merchant when he opened the first of several franchises of the Ben Franklin five-and-dime franchises in Arkansas.
This would lead to bigger and better things and he soon opened his first Wal-Mart store in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas. Wal-Mart specialized in name-brands at low prices and Sam Walton was surprised at the success. Soon a chain of Wal-Mart stores sprang up across rural America. Walton's management style was popular with employees and he founded some of the basic concepts of management that are still in use today. After taking the company public in 1970, Walton introduced his "profit sharing plan". The profit sharing plan was a plan for Wal-Mart employees to improve their income dependent on the profitability of the store. Sam Walton believed that "individuals don't win, teams do". Employees at Wal-Mart stores were offered stock options and store discounts. These benefits are commonplace today, but Walton was among the first to implement them. Walton believed that a happy employee meant happy customers and more sales.
Walton believed that by giving employees a part of the company and making their success dependent on the company's success, they would care about the company.
By the 1980s, Wal-Mart had sales of over one billion dollars and over three hundred stores across North America. Wal-Mart's unique decentralized distribution system, also Walton's idea, created the edge needed to further spur growth in the 1980s amidst growing complaints that the "superstore" was squelching smaller, traditional Mom and Pop stores. By 1991, Wal-Mart was the largest U.S. retailer with 1,700 stores. Walton remained active in managing the company, as president and CEO until 1988 and chairman until his death. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom shortly before his death.
Walton died in 1992, being the world's second richest man, behind Bill Gates. He passed his company down to his three sons, daughter and wife. Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated (located in Bentonville, Arkansas) is also in charge of "Sams Club". Wal-Mart stores now operate in Mexico, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, China and Puerto Rico. Sam Walton's visions were indeed successful.
