I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.

It doesn't do much good to have a quality image, whether it's with the facility or whether it's with the merchandise, if you don't have real quality people taking care of your customers.

We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

He was far scarier than any ghost could be. He was real, and he was a monster.

What you believe in makes you bold.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

I lost in '96, in case the word hadn't trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.

You'd phone or knock on the door of your friend or neighbour if they hadn't appeared at your local pub or bar for a few days, just to make sure they weren't dead in the cellar.

A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.

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But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.

If we seek the most happiness we can as individuals, it sort of bleeds into other people's lives.