52 Quotes by James Sinegal

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.

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.

Everybody is watching you every minute anyways. If they think the message you're sending out is phony, they're going to say, 'Who does he think he is?' It's again good business. But it is also an obligation.

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

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.

We would rather have our employees running our business.

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.