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TIP490: Lessons from Home Depot, Sam Walton and giving away $2 Billion w/ Billionaire Bernie Marcus

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

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What Are Your Thoughts on ESG?

In 2001, the year you retired, Home Depot won the award for most socially responsible company. And another thing I found very admirable is that you and your fellow executives kept your salaries at $2 million. What's interesting about Home Depot is that they were doing all of this early on. They just naturally did it because they did the right thing. We need them way ahead of them.

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