January 24, 2014
Via: Tom O
Halloran
By: David Green, the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
By: David Green, the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
When
my family and I started our company 40 years ago, we were working out of a
garage on a $600 bank loan, assembling miniature picture frames. Our first
retail store wasn’t much bigger than most people’s living rooms, but we had
faith that we would succeed if we lived and worked according to God’s word.
From
there, Hobby Lobby has become one of the nation’s largest arts and crafts
retailers, with more than 500 locations in 41 states. Our children grew up into
fine business leaders, and today we run Hobby Lobby together, as a family.
We’re
Christians, and we run our business on Christian principles. I’ve always said
that the first two goals of our business are (1) to run our business in harmony
with God’s laws, and (2) to focus on people more than money. And that’s what
we’ve tried to do.
We
close early so our employees can see their families at night. We keep our
stores closed on Sundays, one of the week’s biggest shopping days, so that our
workers and their families can enjoy a day of rest.
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