Quotes from Doug McMillon

I think the country needs to come together and solve problems.

Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't is at a clear disadvantage.

There's only so much we can do from the home office to merchandise a store well. If you live in that community and work in that store, you know more about what you should be featuring and the actionality on an end cap than someone from Bentonville, Arkansas does.

Technology - the Internet, mobile and analytics - is being used to do anything and everything a customer doesn't want to.

We just don't want to sell products that make anyone uncomfortable.

We will continue to help communities prepare for - and recover from - the unexpected.

Society expects things of leading companies and sometimes we should take a stance on something.

My dad always had very high standards for me, from day one.

Technology is fundamentally changing what it means to work - and the retail industry is no exception.

Helping other people develops your leadership skills, and people start to see you as a natural leader.

Getting the job you want always starts with excelling at the one you have.

Customers want to save money and time and have the broadest assortment of items, and we think that by bringing e-commerce and digital capabilities together with the stores, we can do things that a pure e-commerce player can't.

Purchasing items made in the U.S. for our stores here or Canadian goods for our stores in Canada makes good business sense because it allows us to ensure greater customer relevance and reduce delivery times.

We do not want to sell anything that offends people.

I will continue to strongly advocate on behalf of our associates and customers, and urge our elected officials to do their part to promote a more just, tolerant and diverse society.

Deciding to listen with open ears and an open heart brings us together. We need to seek to really understand each other. We need to demonstrate empathy. If we can make these individual connections, we can strengthen our communities and nation.

Our goal is to be able to serve our future customers. To do that, we need to build a strong and capable e-commerce business - but also to strengthen what we're doing in stores.

No doubt a leader or leaders can make that culture more effective or less effective, by the way that we behave. Most importantly, but also by what we say, what we stress, what we reward.

That's one of the best things about my job: I get to tell the world about the innovative and meaningful things our people are doing every day.

As we make investments in technology and learn how to automate things, we want our people to learn that and go with us.

I love electronics.