Doug McMillon Quotes

Doug McMillon

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 17, 1966

My family raised bird dogs when I was growing up in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and I'm a gun owner myself.

Doug McMillon

We want what's best for our customers, our associates and our communities.

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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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We will do all we can to try and keep prices from going up.

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We know for sure that customers want to save money. Everybody wants a value. And we also know people want to save time.

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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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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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In the world there is a debate over inequity, and sometimes we get caught up in that, and retail does in general.

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Helping other people develops your leadership skills, and people start to see you as a natural leader.

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We believe in learning from other people.

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Our job is to create great store experiences for customers and online and in every way we can service them.

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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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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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If Black and African-Americans could participate in our economy at the same level that others do, it'd be a boost to GDP growth.

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We want to serve the country. We want to help the country get stronger.

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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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Fuel prices are really a pressure point, and they have had an impact on food and other things as well.

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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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Clearly, Amazon is teaching the world what's possible.

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Our associates are the heroes of our company's story. They work hard to make a difference in the lives of millions of customers.

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