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Samuel Moore Walton was an American business magnate, philanthropist, and military veteran best known for co-founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas, and Midwest City, Oklahoma, in 1962 and 1983 respectively. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. grew to be the world's largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest private employer in the world.
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business · American business magnate (1918–1992) · entrepreneur · businessperson · economist · also Sam Walton, Samuel Moore Walton, Walton
Born 29 March 1918 · Died 5 April 1992 · Q497827
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“our Wal-Mart stock has gone into that partnership. Then the board of Walton Enterprises, which is us, the family, makes decisions on a consensus basis. Sometimes we argue, and sometimes we don”
The Washington Post rated the claim ““The Walton family makes more money in one minute than Walmart workers do in an entire year."” Geppetto Checkmark.
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Published “<i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 7,461 times.
Published “Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults” in The Lancet — cited 5,591 times.
Published “The<i>Gaia</i>mission” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 6,433 times.
Snopes rated the claim “Account describes entrepreneur Sam Walton's efforts to evade paying his employees minimum wage.” Mostly True.
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With Frank Robson, brother-in-law of Sam Walton
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Published “Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae” in The Astrophysical Journal — cited 15,631 times.
Walton was included in Time's list of 100 most influential people of the 20th Century
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by George H. W. Bush (1992).
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Died 1992-04-05.
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“The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else”
“I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.”
At the age of 74, Walton died of blood cancer and was buried at the Bentonville Cemetery in his longtime home of Bentonville, Arkansas
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And had gone through radiation therapy and chemotherapy at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas
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When the editors began to credit Walton's fortune jointly to him and his four children
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Walton was diagnosed and treated for Hairy cell leukemia
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Opened a store with Bud in a shopping center in Ruskin Heights, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri
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After leaving the military, Walton took over management of his first variety store at the age of 26
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John Thomas (1946–2005), James Carr (Jim) born in 1948, and Alice Louise born in 1949
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In anticipation of being inducted into the military for service in World War II
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Born 1918-03-29.
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