Words matter. These are the best Doug McMillon Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
Business has the unique ability to make things happen fast and at scale.
For years, we’ve asked our suppliers to prioritize the talent and diversity of their sales teams calling on our company.
You see the rise and fall of Sears and others. It’s just a reminder that this can happen to us too.
We will do all we can to try and keep prices from going up.
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.
We know for sure that customers want to save money. Everybody wants a value. And we also know people want to save time.
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.
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.
Getting the job you want always starts with excelling at the one you have.
Technology is fundamentally changing what it means to work – and the retail industry is no exception.
We don’t really care how the customers want to shop. We want to be in the position to serve them in any of those ways.
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.
Helping other people develops your leadership skills, and people start to see you as a natural leader.
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.
Society expects things of leading companies and sometimes we should take a stance on something.
Finding inventory in the backroom is not always a joy.
Shipping packages one at a time is not only wasteful and environmentally unsustainable, it isn’t cost-effective.
I’m a basketball guy.
If you want to copy somebody, you’re going to be second at best, and always a step behind.
I always wanted a Jeep.
Some of the wealthiest people in the world became wealthy by saving money.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The world is a better place with Walmart in it.
If the consumer generally feels like they are going to have a job… access to money… we will see them spend that.
Hurricane Katrina touched our customers, communities we serve, and our associates in a profound way.
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.
Clearly, Amazon is teaching the world what’s possible.
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.
Usually supply chains operate quietly behind the scenes.
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.
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.
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.
Everybody loves saving time and something that’s easy.
We will continue to help communities prepare for – and recover from – the unexpected.
We want to be able to do business in China. I know a lot of American businesses and farmers want to as well.
Retail is about change. It’s challenging and fast-paced. It’s a team sport.
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.
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.
That transition to a digital age, to a forward looking country, needs to happen.
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.
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.
The future is not going to be driven exclusively by technology, but by people.
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.
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.
When I saw Jet.com, I saw a strong team.
Like people, when companies work to foster a culture of collaboration, communication becomes second nature.
We cannot let the competition beat us on price.
Big problems don’t rest on the shoulders of government or corporations alone.
We do not want to sell anything that offends people.
Our associates are the heroes of our company’s story. They work hard to make a difference in the lives of millions of customers.
