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Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Stil…
The people in the stores were long-tenured, partly because most of our full-timers had risen from the ranks of the part-timers; and partly because of the slow growth of the number of stores, so there weren’t scads of promotion opportunities.
Patty Civalleri • Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
So many business leaders and entrepreneurs started with the dictum: "bigger and better"
I want to have a company with 200 people, 300 people. I want to be growing my company and scaling it and then selling it and exiting.
And that's right for some people, but the number of individuals I've worked with who along the way have realized, actually, that
I admire Nordstrom’s fundamental instruction to its employees: use your best judgment.