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David Green and Bill High: How One Family Built a Billion-Dollar Company That Gives Away Half Its Profits
What happens when a business decides faith matters more than profit? Apparently, it flourishes.
Hobby Lobby, founded by David and Barbara Green in Oklahoma City in 1972, is a private, family-owned corporation now with over a thousand arts-and-crafts stores nationwide. The stores are closed on Sundays, do not sell any Halloween-themed products, operate debt-free, and are run according to Biblical principles, emphasizing the value of faith and family life.
David Green told me in our recent interview: “God blesses us when we do what we should do, rather than what’s maybe most profitable.”
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