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TIP178: Sam Walton - Made In America - The Story of Wal-Mart (Business Podcast)

The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Stig Brodersen

Business, Education, Investing

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode we learn about Billionaire Sam Walton. To prepare for the show we read Walton's book: Made In America. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: Sam Walton’s 10 pieces of advice for building a successful business. What Amazon learned from Walmart. Why it is a big problem if your team is not complaining. Ask the Investors: Are Warren and Charlie the competitive advantage of Berkshire Hathaway?  BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members. Sam Walton’s book, Made in America – Read reviews of this book. Preston and Stig’s discussion of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Join Preston and Stig for the annual Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder’s meeting. NEW TO THE SHOW? Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. 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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to TIP.

0:30.0

You're listening to TIP.

0:52.5

We're going to be covering Sam Walton's book Made in America.

0:57.5

This was a really good read.

0:59.5

We were waiting a long time for this to come out

1:01.5

because it wasn't on audio books on Audible.

1:04.5

Recently, I just saw it pop up there within the last month.

1:08.5

So, Stig and I took a look at it and we said,

1:10.5

hey, it's finally available.

1:12.5

Let's go ahead and do this.

1:13.5

So, Stig, I'm assuming you enjoyed this one.

1:15.5

This was a very good read, right?

1:17.5

Oh, yeah.

1:18.5

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

1:19.5

Especially in these days and times where everything is about

1:22.5

high tech and AI, blockchain and what's not.

1:25.5

It was just nice to read like an old-fashioned book about how

1:29.5

to become the richest man in American in retail being

1:33.5

a merchant.

1:34.5

It was not to lie about that.

1:35.5

So, I think we really needed this book, Preston.

1:38.5

You know, I had heard that Jeff Bezos had read this book

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