It's how we play the game: build a business, take a stand, make a difference

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Go start this -- If I had what I owe, I'd truly be a wealthy man -- This is what puts food on the table -- Go play baseball--stay out of trouble -- I love you -- We'd be doing a lot better if we weren't getting dicked to death -- Who do I thank for the drink? -- They're really not quite as smart as they think they are -- If you tee off on number one, you putt out on eighteen -- Did you ever think about changing the name? -- You can go bankrupt while turning a profit -- You've done all you can do -- They're not going to say yes until you say no -- Your investment banker is not your friend -- People should know when they're conquered -- Those Yankees. I was so disgusted last night with those boys -- If we were tasked with solving a problem, we'd solve the problem -- Why are we not talking about this in the presidential debates? -- Read me the nasty ones -- Be brave enough to do your jobs.;In 1948, Richard Stack started Dick's Bait and Tackle in Binghamton, New York. Today Dick's Sporting Goods is the largest sporting goods retailer in the country with over 800 locations and close to $9 billion in sales. Ed Stack transformed the business by conceiving it as a force for good in the communities it serves. His support for embattled youth sports programs earned the stores surprising loyalty. After the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Dick's became the first major retailer to pull all semi-automatic weapons from its shelves and raise the age of gun purchase to twenty-one. Here Stack reflects on what a company owes the people it serves-- and how he followed his heart to do so. -- adapted from jacket;For readers of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog and Howard Schultz's Onward comes an inspiring memoir from the CEO of DICK's Sporting Goods about building a multibillion-dollar business and taking a principled--and highly controversial--stand against the types of guns that are too often used in mass shootings and other tragedies. Go start this -- If I had what I owe, I'd truly be a wealthy man -- This is what puts food on the table -- Go play baseball--stay out of trouble -- I love you -- We'd be doing a lot better if we weren't getting dicked to death -- Who do I thank for the drink? -- They're really not quite as smart as they think they are -- If you tee off on number one, you putt out on eighteen -- Did you ever think about changing the name? -- You can go bankrupt while turning a profit -- You've done all you can do -- They're not going to say yes until you say no -- Your investment banker is not your friend -- People should know when they're conquered -- Those Yankees. I was so disgusted last night with those boys -- If we were tasked with solving a problem, we'd solve the problem -- Why are we not talking about this in the presidential debates? -- Read me the nasty ones -- Be brave enough to do your jobs.