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

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.

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.

One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.

No one person leads alone - can't do it, it's impossible. It doesn't make any sense. You need a team.

Achieving it is not only the chief means of adding to your regular duties.

As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

Everyone wants to get better. You go through life, you want to shift and change and get better. No one ever says, "I'm better." They say, "I wanna get better."

The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.

Freedom is participation in power.

I do everything for my fans. I do my clothing line, my fragrance, my TV show, my music everything is based on them

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.