52 Quotes by James Sinegal

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

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.

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

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 want to turn our inventory faster than our people.

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

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.

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.