Quotes by Doug Mcmillon - Page 2

We have a long heritage as a company of serving responsible hunters and sportsmen and women, and we're going to continue doing so.
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Heritage
Hunters
Serving
Sportsmen
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As businesses, as communities, as families, and friends, we need to go forward remembering that we're all connected in one way or another.
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Remembering
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We're not proud, we're not egotistical. If someone is doing something better than we are, let's copy and paste when we should and when we can.
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Egotistical
Copy
Paste
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That's one of the best things about my job: I get to tell the world about the innovative and meaningful things our people are doing every day.
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Meaningful
Best World Day
Our People
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Yeah, we're trying to learn from Sam Walton, learn from competition, and on a global basis be able to be the very best as we try to bring it all together.
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Sam
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We are committed to supporting the economic growth of India and this includes providing a resource to local partners and taking 'Made in India' products global.
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Economic Growth
Partners
Providing
Resource
Supporting
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Customers want a broad assortment, especially with e-commerce. If you pull up your mobile app to look for something at Walmart, we want you to be able to find it.
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Walmart
App
Broad
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You can compare the retail business to basketball. You have to have a plan, you have to hustle, you have to rely on each other, and there's a scoreboard on the wall.
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Compare
Hustle
Rely
Retail
Scoreboard
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We hope to contribute to bringing the country together as it relates to things like inclusion. But we hope to help other - solve other problems, too, if we're asked.
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Inclusion
Solve
Contribute
Relates
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We simply won't be here if we don't take care of the very things that allow us to exist: our associates, customers, suppliers and the planet. That's not up for debate.
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Associates
Customers
Debate
Suppliers
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I think one of the keys is to celebrate intelligent failures and when things don't work, learn from those. Celebrate learning more than we celebrate the failure itself.
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Celebrate
Intelligent
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Our goal is to be able to serve our future customers. To do that, we need to build a strong and capable e-commerce business - but also to strengthen what we're doing in stores.
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Customers
Stores
Strengthen
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Low prices at Walmart are a given. Customers almost take that for granted. But they also want to save time, and that goal is increasing in importance relative to just saving money.
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Customers
Granted
Relative
Saving
Saving Money
Walmart
Increasing
Prices
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I will continue to strongly advocate on behalf of our associates and customers, and urge our elected officials to do their part to promote a more just, tolerant and diverse society.
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Associates
Behalf
Diverse
Elected Officials
Officials
Society Will More
Advocate
Promote
Strongly
Tolerant
Urge
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We hope that our associates over time can do more delivery from their way home from stores. We keep trying to figure that out given the realities and the rules associated with that.
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Delivery
Way Home
Associated
Realities
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No doubt a leader or leaders can make that culture more effective or less effective, by the way that we behave. Most importantly, but also by what we say, what we stress, what we reward.
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Behave
No Doubt
Importantly
Reward
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As chairman, I commit to keeping Business Roundtable CEOs at the forefront of constructive public policy debates as we pursue an agenda of greater growth and opportunity for all Americans.
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Commit
Constructive
Public Policy
Pursue
Agenda
All Americans
Ceos
Debates
Forefront
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Our country frequently seems more divided than ever on how to approach everything from climate change to the economy. I think the path to understanding begins with honest, open conversations.
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Climate Change
Divided
Begins
Conversations
Frequently
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Walmart is not arrogant. We could go away at any minute. I think most of us act that way every day. If you're not willing to fail - and we are failing at some things - you're going to go away.
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Arrogant
Failing
Walmart
Go Away
Day Every Day Way
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Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't is at a clear disadvantage.
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Celebrate
Diverse
Exchange
Cultures
Disadvantage
Solving
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Walmart was built on the idea that we could give our customers access to the items they need every day at the lowest prices by eliminating waste and managing our expenses better than the competition.
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Customers
Expenses
Items
Lowest
Walmart
Managing
Prices
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I think the first thing that goes through my mind, when I think about corporate tax, is that we need to think about where we set the rate on a global basis, and make sure that the U.S. is competitive.
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Corporate
Rate
First Thing
The First Thing
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I went to graduate school and paid good money to get an education that's worth something, but I learned more in the first six months at Wal-Mart than I learned in 5 1/2 years of post-secondary education.
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Graduate School
Education Good Money
Graduate
Wal-Mart
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Purchasing items made in the U.S. for our stores here or Canadian goods for our stores in Canada makes good business sense because it allows us to ensure greater customer relevance and reduce delivery times.
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Business Sense
Canada
Delivery
Goods
Items
Purchasing
Relevance
Stores
Customer
Reduce
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I think the growing interest in stakeholder capitalism stems from companies genuinely invested in doing good for our world, because it's the right thing to do and because businesses who take this approach are stronger.
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Doing Good
Our World
Right Thing
Genuinely
Invested
Stems
The Right Thing
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Customer satisfaction has always been the number one goal for retailers, and in the future, customers will be more empowered than ever to drive the change they want, as they get more control over their shopping experience.
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Satisfaction
Shopping
Change Future Experience
Customer
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Customers want to save money and time and have the broadest assortment of items, and we think that by bringing e-commerce and digital capabilities together with the stores, we can do things that a pure e-commerce player can't.
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Customers
Items
Stores
Capabilities
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When I joined Walmart, I just had a team mindset, but I look back on it now, and I realize some of those early jobs I had, I was trying to help other people and rally the team. It ended up people started looking at me as a leader.
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Mindset
Walmart
Look Me Looking
Joined
Rally
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2/3 of our management associates come from our hourly ranks. We put in place academies to help people with education. We've put a dollar a day college program in to help people get college hours if they want to advance their degrees.
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Associates
Degrees
Management
Advance
Dollar
Help People
Ranks
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Deciding to listen with open ears and an open heart brings us together. We need to seek to really understand each other. We need to demonstrate empathy. If we can make these individual connections, we can strengthen our communities and nation.
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Connections
Ears
Deciding
Demonstrate
Strengthen
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We are a retailer - we are a merchant. That is our business. But we look for places to make a positive difference. There is such a thing as a double bottom line, whether it is the wage increase or what we do with environmental sustainability to limit waste.
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Environmental
Bottom Line
Sustainability
Double
Limit
Merchant
Such A Thing
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Customers want to explore. But they need to have easy access to items they choose to use all the time. The historic trade-off between price and service has been altered by technology and customers expect to save time and enjoy the experience while saving money.
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Altered
Customers
Easy Access
Historic
Items
Saving
Saving Money
Time Experience Money
Trade-Off
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There's only so much we can do from the home office to merchandise a store well. If you live in that community and work in that store, you know more about what you should be featuring and the actionality on an end cap than someone from Bentonville, Arkansas does.
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Arkansas
Merchandise
Work Home Community
Cap
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My first job with Walmart was unloading trucks in a warehouse. Then I worked as an assistant manager in a store, and I was lucky enough to get into our buyer-training program. I loved merchandising and had a career path that led me through Sam's Club and Walmart International.
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Career Path
Merchandising
Walmart
Warehouse
Assistant
First Job
Sam
Trucks
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Representing a company with the largest and one of the most diverse groups of associates in the U.S., and an even more diverse customer base of tens of millions of customers, we believe we should stay engaged to try to influence decisions in a positive way and help bring people together.
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Associates
Diverse
Engaged
Representing
Customer
Largest
Positive Way
Tens
Tens Of Millions
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If you want to think of a company as a system, design the system to benefit all. So how can you raise wages, increase training, and reduce carbon, and provide low-prices? We believe that it's possible to deliver, and I find a lot of other likeminded CEOs, as it relates to thinking that way.
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Carbon
Wages
Ceos
Deliver
Reduce
Relates
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Regardless of the administration or who's in Congress, when you look at the outcomes of what what's been happening, there are opportunities for us to invest in infrastructure, to create more equity, to invest in new technologies, to create future - jobs focused on the future not industries from the past.
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Equity
Infrastructure
Outcomes
Future Past Look
Invest
Future Look Past
Industries
New Technologies
Technologies
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Look around at things that just aren't getting done. Maybe there's a project you could tackle. Maybe there's an issue that always gets back-burnered for other priorities. Challenge yourself to take on those difficult assignments. They're learning opportunities, and you have a chance to change something for the better.
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Assignments
Tackle
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