Saul Price

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Statements about Saul Price, by other people (5)

Insight
Paying double market wages slashes retail employee turnover and internal theft
“Pay double, and you get your pick of the best workers. Turnover disappears. Theft becomes almost non-existent. People start treating your business like it's their business.”
Shane Parrish Aug 12, 2025 ▶ 21:02 Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
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Sol Price: You train an animal, you teach a person
“One of my favorite adages of his that he frequently found appropriate to repeat was, you train an animal, you teach a person.”
Shane Parrish Aug 12, 2025 ▶ 25:40 Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
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Sol Price: Lawsuits Consume Founders' Energy and Only Enrich the Attorneys
“Saul told him the lawsuit consumed everything, every thought, all of his energy, and that even if you won, you still lost. Only the attorneys made money.”
Shane Parrish Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 18:12 Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
Insight
Selling high-quality goods is more cost-effective than handling inferior merchandise
“Selling high quality merchandise is more cost effective than selling inferior merchandise.”
Shane Parrish Aug 12, 2025 ▶ 17:00 Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
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Sol Price's pro bono legal clients became his first FedMart investors
“Those charity connections, they'd become his first investors when he needed capital for FedMart in 16 years, too.”
Shane Parrish Aug 12, 2025 ▶ 6:04 Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]

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Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers Aug 12, 2025 47s clip played
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