If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy. — James Sinegal Enjoy Copy Share Image
When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors. — James Sinegal Ambassadors Copy Share Image
Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity. — James Sinegal Opposition Copy Share Image
Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business. — James Sinegal Business Copy Share Image
You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job. — James Sinegal Educated Copy Share Image
If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any… — James Sinegal Jobs Copy Share Image
You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about… — James Sinegal Business Copy Share Image
I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size. — James Sinegal Amount Copy Share Image
When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen. — James Sinegal Careers Copy Share Image
If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of… — James Sinegal Business Copy Share Image
We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more… — James Sinegal Class Copy Share Image
You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of… — James Sinegal American dream Copy Share Image
Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company… — James Sinegal Attitude Copy Share Image
It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you… — James Sinegal Blame Copy Share Image
There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true:… — James Sinegal Business Copy Share Image
If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't… — James Sinegal Cheat Copy Share Image
One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send… — James Sinegal Afford Copy Share Image
The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory… — James Sinegal Brilliance Copy Share Image
If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen. — James Sinegal Generally Copy Share Image
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… — James Sinegal Care Copy Share Image
It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way. — James Sinegal Bits Copy Share Image
You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term. — James Sinegal Business Copy Share Image
It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything. — James Sinegal Afford Copy Share Image
Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science. — James Sinegal Art Copy Share Image
Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the… — James Sinegal Attitude Copy Share Image
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker… — James Sinegal Brilliance Copy Share Image
You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and… — James Sinegal Class Copy Share Image
I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it.… — James Sinegal Adversity Copy Share Image
I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation. — James Sinegal Company Copy Share Image
Everybody is watching you every minute anyways. If they think the message you're sending out is phony, they're going to say, 'Who… — James Sinegal Again Copy Share Image
You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising… — James Sinegal Add Copy Share Image
Our attitude has always been that if you hire good people and provide good wages and good jobs and more than that… — James Sinegal Attitude Copy Share Image
