I want to talk to you about the autobiography of Sam Walton.
It's called Made in America.
And this book was published about a year before he died.
So he was suffering from a rare form of bone cancer.
And he knew he was going to die, so he decided to put all his thoughts down on paper.
So I want to jump right into the book.
If you've heard previous episodes, then you know that we have this section
that I affectionately call Critics Don't Know Shit.
And I do that because in almost every, actually in every biography,
there's always people around the entrepreneurs telling them that their idea is no good,
that it's not gonna work out, that you're not good enough.
And I just think it's a good reminder to anybody that no one knows what they're talking about.
So we're going to start at the beginning of the book.
And Sam Walton is working at JCPenney.
And let's start.
And he says, anyway, he'd get all upset at the way I would screw up the sales slips and generally mishandle
the cash register part of things.
I couldn't stand to leave a new customer waiting while I fiddled with paperwork on a sale I'd already made.
Walton, Blake would say to me.
This is his manager.