Chapter 18: Wanting to Leave a Legacy Summary and Analysis

Here Sam reflects on his life as a whole. He is quite sick and this sickness has been the reason why he is able to sit down and help write the book, since before he was far too active to do anything so sedentary. He has had the time of his life running Wal-Mart, but has been wondering if he should have spent more time with his family over the years instead. He had plenty of money. He could have bought an island and just played with his grandchildren.

However, he thinks life has been a trade-off and he set goals for himself that he wanted to achieve. He had to get up every day with the idea of improving something. But did he make the right choices? He knows one...