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Sam Walton
Walmart as we know it today evolved from Sam Walton’s goals for great value and great customer service. “Mr. Sam,” as he was known, believed in leadership through service. This belief that true leadership depends on willing service was the principle on which Walmart was built, and drove the decisions the company has made for the past 50 years. So much of Walmart’s history is tied to the story of Sam Walton himself, and so much of our future will be rooted in Mr. Sam’s principles.
Walmart-
Sam Walton was born in 1918 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. In 1942, at the age of 24, he joined the military. He married Helen Robson in 1943. When his military service ended in 1945, Sam and Helen moved to Iowa and then to Newport, Arkansas. During this time, Sam gained early retail experience, eventually operating his own variety store. In 1950, the Waltons left Newport for Bentonville, where Sam opened Walton’s 5&10 on the downtown square. They chose Bentonville because Helen wanted small-town living, and Sam could take advantage of the different hunting seasons that living at the corner of four states had to offer. Inspired by the early success of his dime store, and driven to bring even greater opportunity and value to his customers, Sam opened the first Walmart in 1962 at the age of 44 in Rogers, Arkansas.
Sam’s competitors thought his idea that a successful business could be built around offering lower prices and great service would never work. As it turned out, the company’s success exceeded even Sam’s expectations. The company went public in 1970, and the proceeds financed a steady expansion of the business. Sam credited the rapid growth of Walmart not just to the low costs that attracted his customers, but also to his associates. He relied on them to give customers the great shopping experience that would keep them coming back. Sam shared his vision for the company with associates in a way that was nearly unheard of in the industry. He made them partners in the success of the company, and firmly believed that this partnership was what made Walmart great. As the stores grew, so did Sam’s aspirations. In addition to bringing new approaches and technologies to retail, he also experimented with new store formats—including Sam’s Club and the Walmart Supercenter—and even made the decision to take Walmart into Mexico. Sam’s fearlessness in offering lower prices and bringing Walmart’s value to customers in the U.S. and beyond set a standard for the company that lives on to this day. His strong commitment to service and to the values that help individuals, businesses and the country succeed earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded by President George H. W. Bush in 1992. It was during Sam’s acceptance remarks that he articulated what would come to be Walmart’s official company purpose. “If we work together,” he said, “we’ll lower the cost of living for everyone…we’ll give the world an opportunity to see what it’s like to save and have a better life.
"Customer are the king of the market".
Elon musk
Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/ˈiːlɒn/; born June 28, 1971) is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer. He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship and is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; co-founder of Neuralink; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder and co-chairman of OpenAI; and co-founder of PayPal. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World’s Most Powerful People. He has a net worth of $19.4 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 40th-richest person in the world. Born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk moved to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen’s University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received an economics degree from the Wharton School and a degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences. He began a Ph.D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out after two days to pursue an entrepreneurial career. He subsequently co-founded Zip2, a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for $340 million in 1999.
Musk then founded X.com, an online bank. It merged with Confinity in 2000 and later that year became PayPal, which was bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002. In May 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO and lead designer. He joined Tesla, Inc., an electric vehicle and solar panel manufacturer, in 2004, the year after it was founded, and became its CEO and product architect. In 2006, he inspired the creation of SolarCity, a solar energy services company (now a subsidiary of Tesla) and operates as its chairman. In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In July 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer interfaces. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel-construction company. In addition to his primary business pursuits, Musk has envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop, and has proposed a vertical take-off and landing supersonic jet electric aircraft with electric fan propulsion, known as the Musk electric jet. Musk has stated that the goals of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity. His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the risk of human extinction by establishing a human colony on Mars. Source: Wikipedia If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not. Elon Musk
Jack ma
Jack ma who was born in a poor family became one of the world’s richest man, After completing his graduation he struggles a lot to get one Job. But today he is providing an opportunity to Lakhs of people to work on his company.
Jack Ma was born on 10 September 1964 in Hangzhou, China. Jack parents were traditional musicians, and he has one younger sister and elder brother. From his childhood Jack has a curiosity in learning and speaking English. But by that time no one has preferring to speak English in china. Once in 1972 America’s former President Richard M. Nixon has traveled to china for an Official work and visited Jack ma’s city Hangzhou. After visited that place Nixon said that he loved Hangzhou it was a beautiful place to visit. Similarly Hangzhou become a tourist destination and more foreigners preferred to visit that place. Here Jack thought he got one favorable opportunity, by communicating with foreigners will help to improve his English skills for that he became a tourist guide. He used to travel 50 kilometers in his bicycle to reach tourist place. He has been worked for 9 years as a tourist guide. After finishing his schooling he wrote an entrance exam to continue his education in college but he failed in entrance exam for twice. Finally the third time he passed in entrance and completed his college. Later to complete his degree he applied to Harvard University and got rejected more than 10 times. he was desperate with that and enrolled in china normal university and completed his bachelors degree.
Career
Jack entered in job searching, he applied for 30 jobs but unluckily he didn’t get selected in a single job. Subsequently he applied for a police job but they rejected him saying three simple words “you’re no good”. Jack was so frustrated even he applied for a Job in KFC 23 people got selected and the guy only one Jack was got rejected. Jack Ma is believed in theory of “Never Give Up”. Finally he joined as an English lecturer in one university. By continuing his job he started a translation service company. In 1995 jack visited USA for his company project. Here for the first time jack was introduced to computers and internet Because computers were rare in china. jack was surprised with computers and the first word he had searched in internet was Beer. jack got results for different countries but not china. Jack got a potential business opportunity and started a company called “China Pages” where Chinese Entrepreneurs could do business with the rest of the world. But due lack of funding jack shutdown that business
Alibaba
Later jack got placed in one government job in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. However jack was not so happy with that job he resigned to that job and by grouping 17 people he established one E-commerce company called Alibaba.com in 1999. Jack continued his efforts to raise funds and eventually two companies Goldman Sachs and Soft Bank invested $25 Million in Alibaba Group. After that with great efforts and unique ideas Alibaba Group profits crossed world’s Largest E-commerce company EBAY in China. Subsequently Jack succeeded in getting Yahoo to invest a huge count $1 Billion for a 40% stake in Alibaba Group in 2005.
In 2014 Alibaba turned out largest IPO in the world, Jack and his team successfully raised $25 Billion for Alibaba by listing it in the New York stock exchange in the USA. That’s how Alibaba group become the world’s largest company till date. And also Jack Ma donates millions of dollars for people health and education in china.
"Never ever give up".
Life story of Steve jobs-
Steve Jobs D.O.B is 24 February 1955.Steve Jobs was born in California to a Syrian Muslim Family Abdul Fattah Jandali and Joann Caro Schieable. But his Biological parents gave him up for adoption to a couple of Paul jobs and Clara. Coming to Steve’s educational life he finished his schooling in California. Later he enrolled in Reed college for higher education. But he left college before completing his graduation. Because of some financial issues and also he doesn’t have more curiosity to continue his education. But he was interested in one course called Calligraphy, So he continued in learning that course. By that time Steve used to go for Hare Krishna temple which was 7 kilometers far to his residence. This temple ambiance has created a curiosity for Steve Jobs to know more about spirituality and Indian Culture. He decided to travel to India, but he doesn’t enough money to travel. For that, he has been worked in a Video Games company called Atari. and he saved some money. Eventually, Steve Jobs Arrived to India in 1975. Steve traveled to many places in India like Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, etc. Nearly Steve stayed 7 months in India and Returned as a Buddhist to his hometown California. Subsequently, he met his childhood friend Steve Wozniak, They both decided to start a Company Steve friend is a veteran in Electronics. But they don’t have enough money to start a company. Steve sold his van and his friend sold his scientific calculator for money.
Apple-
Eventually, on April 1, 1976, they both had commenced a company called “Apple” in Steve Jobs’s house garage. After a few months, they had invented personal computers with amazing features. Initially, Apple computers sold out in a huge count and had its market value of 1.2 billion within four years. by that time Steve’s handling the marketing department. But the company needs one good experienced CEO. Hence they met Pepsi-cola company’s CEO John Sculley and offered him Apple CEO position he also accepted it. Well, they thought everything is going fine. But the Company met with huge loses due to several flaws in products. And also a major issue is Apple had to compete with IBM’s newly invented PCs. Because IBM/PC was #No 1 in Tech Market with user-friendly and innovative features. Hence Apple failed to compete with IBM and satisfying consumers. And the Board members of Apple blamed Steve Jobs and Criticized him for the loses that occurred in the company. So it compelled him to detach his ties with Company. Finally, In 1985 he resigned to Apple and came out of the company.
He didn’t frightened to anything, Subsequently, he commenced a new firm with the hardware and software products called Next INC. In the same year, he started an Animation company with the name of Pixar Animation Studios and released many famous movies like Toy Story, The Incredibles, Wall E, Cars, etc. In 2006 Pixar collaborated with Walt Disney. Steve Jobs prevailed the previous glory in his life with the Success of Next INC and Pixar. But Apple company, which Steve started with a very affectionate, is in the same distress. Apple Board members wanted Steve jobs to come back as a CEO. Steve’s Affirmed with their request and went back to the Apple. After that Steve jobs invented many products in Apple which we are loving today like Ipods, Ipads, Iphones, Imac, etc.
"The most precious thing that we all have with us is time".
