Oct. 30, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| Our culture is one that doesn't please everybody. | |
| But we have found out in every area in life, it seems like, or in our business, where things look like it wouldn't work. | |
| It doesn't. | |
| For instance, closing on Sunday didn't work either. | |
| So when we closed on Sunday, we did less business. | |
| When we stopped selling Halloween, we did less business. | |
| But I can name seven or eight different things that when we did, it cost us. | |
| But it was the right thing to do. | |
| So I think God is asking us to do the right thing and not what's most profitable. | |
| It wasn't most profitable to sue the government, but at the same time, I think God blesses us when we do what we should do rather than what's maybe more profitable. | |
| There was one store that we had to leave after we'd been there five years. | |
| We had 10 years left on the lease, and it was good when we signed it, but the neighborhood went down, and it seemed like that can happen over just a few years. | |
| And it was a bad neighborhood, and so we knew we needed, we were putting people in the store in harm's way, and so we knew we needed to walk away from this. | |
| And we had a wholesale liquor company that would take our lease and take us out of it. | |
| And I thought, no, we just can't do that. | |
| And so I thought, well, someone would say, well, God's going to bless you for that, but we paid 10 years on that lease. | |
| So that's one of the many that I could tell you where we did the right thing, but it didn't necessarily directly look like it was the right thing. | |
| And that's what we're supposed to do, I believe. | |
| We're supposed to do things because it's right and not because it's profitable. | |
| But over the years, God has blessed Hobby Lobby, even though we've made those kind of decisions, like suing the government or closing on Sundays or not selling Halloween. | |
| So there's a lot of those type. | |
| I just gave you one, of course, with this space that we had that we needed to get rid of it for 10 years. |
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