{"id":158010,"date":"2023-03-29T12:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=158010"},"modified":"2023-03-29T12:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:43:48","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-sam-walton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=158010","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Sam Walton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bentonville, AR&#8230;Samuel Moore Walton (March 29, 1918 \u2013 April 5, 1992) The father of Wal-Mart.  Wal-Mart was a different and many would say better company with him at the helm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam_Walton\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/220px-SamWalton-1936.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-158011\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you love your work, you\u2019ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you \u2013 like a fever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They\u2019re absolutely free and worth a fortune.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of our best opportunities were created out of necessity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHigh expectations are the key to everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Capital isn\u2019t scarce; vision is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bentonville, AR&#8230;Samuel Moore Walton (March 29, 1918 \u2013 April 5, 1992) The father of Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart was a different and many would say better company with him at the helm. \u201cIf you love your work, you\u2019ll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/220px-SamWalton-1936.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158012,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158010\/revisions\/158012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}