Lowe's CEO: "Never allow your surrounding to dictate your dreams"

Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison said that growing up, he had a “burning desire” to do more.

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00:00One thing that I heard more often than not was never allow your surroundings to dictate your

00:07dreams. Because growing up in that little small town, having a family that didn't have a lot,

00:12it was easy to look around you and not see anything that looked like success. And so,

00:16you know, just listening to those lessons from my parents really gave me the motivation to go out

00:20and try to do more than just be the next factory worker or working on the farm where a lot of my

00:26classmates, I just always had a burning desire to do a little bit more.