Cal Turner Built Dollar General Into Megachain One Buck At A Time [Investor's Business Daily]
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Cal Turner was raised in Scottsville, Ky., a spit of land roughly 60 miles north of Nashville, 120 miles south of Louisville and home back then to about 2,000 folks. It was the values Turner (1915-2000) learned in this small town that formed him and ultimately led to the creation of the Dollar General. The retail giant now has around 6,000 stores nationwide and annual sales of about $6 billion. According to Cal Turner Jr., who took over the reins of the company from his dad in 1977 and is the author (with Rob Simbeck) of the just-published memoir, "My Father's Business," Turner was convinced that living in a small town made you a better person. "Your behavior and values are different in a small town," Turner said in a phone interview. "Everyone knows you and is keeping an eye on you. Small towns encourage good behavior." It was "a vision and value system" instilled by family patriarch John Luther, a dirt farmer with a third-grade education who actually turned his lack of schooling int
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