His creative and innovative methods have been hallmarks in the emergence of the American retailer as an international business force.
Recognition is less important than doing the good deed.
1981 Members of the Northwood family, as all of you are, just not friends, but family. I accept this award with both a great deal of humility and a sense of honor. I listen to the concept, to the sounds of private enterprise free enterprise if you will and take those words apart and listen to what it means as a belief in the individual s desire to achieve private, not public, enterprise-created work and what that stands for. It is extremely important. Calvin Coolidge said that the business of business is business.