In the final analysis, you get what you pay for.

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.

people say things meant to rip you in half but you hold the power to notturn their words into a knifeand cut yourself

Happiness does not come from having much, but from being content, even when you have little.

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.

Los Angeles is a great place. Where else can you smell the air and see it coming at you at the same time.

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one.

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.