Les Schwab Tire Centers, every mention

Les Schwab: Why Real Ownership Outperforms Experience, Capital, and Credentials [Outliers] Jul 15, 2025 · 40 mentions

• ▶ 17:37 Shane Parrish Every Les Schwab store would follow this model.
• ▶ 19:41 Shane Parrish He'd already been advertising as Les Schwab OK Rubber Welders to get his name out there. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 22:41 Shane Parrish He was running OK rubber welder stores in Prineville and Redmond, but Les Schwab Tire Centers in Bend and Madras. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 26:48 Shane Parrish If a bright, young, ambitious man joins our company and wants to make our company his career, does he do it because he likes Norm or Gordy or Bob? 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 29:57 Shane Parrish This, I vow, we're going to have a supermarket tire store in every town that we have a Les Schwab Tire Center. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 34:41 Shane Parrish Zone meetings became the company's heartbeat. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 37:33 Shane Parrish Keep your independence, but join Les Schwab network. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 41:15 Shane Parrish In an industry notorious for low margins and high turnover, Les Schwab stores outperformed competitors by 30 to 50%. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 44:18 Shane Parrish Les, who'd been stepping back from daily operations, returned to run the company while Miller recovered. 8 times in the scene
• ▶ 48:37 Shane Parrish By the time he died, Les Schwab Tire Centers was distributing over half of all profits directly to employees. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 50:54 Shane Parrish So one on open books, he said, we have no secrets in our company. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 54:53 Shane Parrish The company was sold for three billion, preserving the culture even after his death. 2 times in the scene