Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

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.

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

For some individuals, this life will be the only bit of heaven they will ever experience while for some it will be the only bit of hell they will ever experience...

Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon.

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.

Don't worry about where you are. Watch the first derivative.

We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.

I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good.