Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.

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.

The prime purpose of education is to enhance the ability to think better.

Sport should be in your Blood/Veins, Not in the Joints or Bones

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

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