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Stack: Dick's Sporting Goods finances all operations from earnings and carries no long-term debt
“I will always be a little paranoid and insist that we finance all we do from our own earnings. It seems to me that's the only way to control your own destiny. The banks can't take away your business if you don't owe them any money. So we carry no long-term deb…”
Ed Stack Quotes Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 56:43 Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
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Stack: Heavy PE debt loads destroy retailers' agility during market downturns
“Many have carried a heavy debt load pushed on them by their private equity owners, firms that use these stores and that debt to pay themselves. When you're leveraged up like that and have significant interest payments to make, you're not as nimble when things …”
Ed Stack Quotes Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 57:10 Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]

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Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers] Sep 23, 2025 1m clip played
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