James Sinegal Quotes

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• Our attitude has always been that if you hire good people and provide good wages and good jobs and more than that - if you…
• Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.
• 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…
• Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.
• If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.
• 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 shortage of very…
• You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
• I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.
• I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.
• 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 lie and don't…
• If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.
• 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…
• In the final analysis, you get what you pay for.
• Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.
• Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.
• You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.
• When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.
• There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose…
• You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3%…
• Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company and performing for…

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