When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work.
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Hobby Lobby has always been a tool for the Lord's work.
It is by God's grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. Therefore, we seek to honor God by operating the company in a manner consistent with biblical principles.
I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don't share that belief.
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.
My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.
I distributed my wealth among my children and set aside a portion for endowment to run charity projects.
Profit is one way that you can take pride in the way you publish things and insure that you can go on doing it.
I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.
My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.
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