Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

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.

O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

Don't worry about what others think of you. It doesn't matter as long as you have your own Convictions and are proud of what you do.

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].

Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

I made two mistakes at the beginning of the season. But I saw Manuel Almunia making mistakes as well, so sometimes you don't know what the thoughts of the coach are.'

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

What the hell did we do to deserve this?