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

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.

Ambivalence is one of the biggest enemies of change. If you aren't sure that you really want to take action on something such as your weight, ambivalence will usually win.

Money will never be as precious as this one life we live.

There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.

I see a lot of young kids hit me on Twitter all the time, like, 'I want to be famous! Listen to my mixtape! I wish I could be like you!' But a lot comes with it. It's not easy.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

There is no humor in heaven.

If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.