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'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.

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

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.

Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

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.

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.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

Seek the spark of divinity within thy soul.

Love everyone because everyone is your kin and this universe is your home.

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

The best form of defense is attack.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.

People do eventually see something that's quality.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.