Tony James
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I believe that.
Charlie believed in the company.
So even when we would have doubts, you know, the management and the board, geez, is this going to work?
Is Amazon going to flatten us?
Now they're buying Whole Foods.
Oh, my God, are they going to do this or that?
And before Amazon, it was Walmart.
He believed in the company.
No, you're the best.
Just go right at them.
Open that unit in Bentonville.
You'll beat the heck out of Walmart.
And it happened.
And no, don't worry about Whole Foods.
You'll crush them.
It happened.
And so he was really a believer with good reason.
He wasn't blind.
But sometimes that sense of confidence, and I tried to put that in the businesses that I've run too, that sense of confidence.
You are good.