Introduction
Sam Walton Founder of Wal-Mart graduated from the University of Missouri in 1940 with the aspiration of all college graduates to go work for a good company and make good money doing so. After being drafted into the war he came back ready and eager to go into business for himself. He was a quick learner and with great instincts learned from other retailers' successes and was adept at garnering ideas for improvements from employees and promptly took those ideas and created his own low price retail store called Wal-Mart. The company grew and Sam proved to be an effective visionary leader. His folksy demeanor and talent for motivating people, combined with very hands-on management style and obvious talent for discount retailing, produced a culture and set of values and beliefs that kept Wal-Mart on a path of continuous innovation and rapid expansion. Wal-Mart emerged as the premier discount retailer in the U.S in the 1980s every one came to know Sam Walton. He was a......

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Title: Walmart
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