When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

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.

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.

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

If you walk in the light, all the darkness around you shall disappear.

The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.

Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.

Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful.

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

Where big data is all about seeking correlations - and thus to make incremental changes - small data is all about causations - seeking to understand the reasons why.

The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.

As a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses.

(on being born on Christmas Day, 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.