As Sam Walton himself said, this is "...a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there. And it's a story about believing in your idea even when maybe some other folks don't, and about sticking to your guns." It's the story of how Walton parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, he never lost the common touch. Here Walton tells his extraordinary story in his own inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure of his ambitions and achievements, Walton shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style.

"Here is an extraordinary success story about a man whose empire was built not with smoke and mirrors, but with good old-fashioned elbow grease." (Detroit Free Press)

山姆·沃爾頓(1918-1992)，沃爾瑪創始人。1945年從一傢“五毛店”開始進入零售業， 1985年成為美國首富；2001年，他創建的沃爾瑪帝國成為世界500強第一名，沃爾頓傢族的5人包攬“福布斯”財富排行榜第7至第11位，成為世界上最富有的傢族。

山姆·沃爾頓把低價銷售、瘋狂促銷的理念帶入零售業，創立瞭一套嚴密的商業哲學，改變瞭美國乃至全球的現代零售業形態。