“Anyway, the man’s a genius. He realized—even at the rudimentary level he was on in 1966, operating those few stores that he had—that he couldn’t expand beyond that horizon unless he had the ability to capture this information on paper so that he could control his operations, no matter where they might be. He became, really, the best utilizer of information to control absentee ownerships that there’s ever been. Which gave him the ability to open as many stores as he opens, and run them as well as he runs them, and to be as profitable as he makes them.
