It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

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.

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.

Love fuels the existence of a divine being

Self-love diminishes no one. It blesses others.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is.

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.