James Sinegal Quotes

You Don't Have A Very Motivated Working Class, It Starts To Affect The Dynamics Of The Economy. If Workers Are Disenchanted And Disenfranchised, Productivity Losses Will Go Along With That.

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 Qualified Men And Women Seeking The Jobs.

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.

Obscene Salaries Send The Wrong Message Through A Company.

Technology Helps Us Become More Efficient And Productive But Our Business Still Has A Lot Of Art As Opposed To Strictly Science.

In The Final Analysis, You Get What You Pay For.

It's Like Heroin: You Do A Little And You Want A Little Bit More. Raising Prices Is The Easy Way.

Paying Good Wages Is Not In Opposition To Good Productivity.

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.

When You Hire Good People, And You Provide Good Jobs And Good Wages And A Career, Good Things Are Going To Happen.

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.