When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

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.

...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.

Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious

I love Hitler for his leadership, but I abhor his actions.

The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!

I think I'm a very intuitive actress.

Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

If you live in a world of faith, this reaffirms your faith.

Freedom and independence is my character.