James Sinegal Quotes

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

Best, Happy, Employees

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.
James Sinegal

Business, Happen, Worry

In the final analysis, you get what you pay for.
James Sinegal

Pay, Final, Analysis

One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
James Sinegal

School, Strong, Children

Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.
James Sinegal

Good, Business, Makes

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.
James Sinegal

Working, Fighting, Dream

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.
James Sinegal

Working, Economy, Along

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

Job, Mistake, Educated

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.
James Sinegal

Good, Business, Again

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.
James Sinegal

Year, Management, Size

I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.
James Sinegal

Today, Small, Motivation

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.
James Sinegal

Women, Men, Made

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

Business, Care, Goal

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

Good, Happen, Give

If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.
James Sinegal

Lie, Working, Same

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

Life, Work, Enjoy

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

Good, Nobody, Afford

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.
James Sinegal

Good, Care, Real

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.
James Sinegal

Through, Wrong, Company

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.
James Sinegal

Through, Wrong, Company

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.
James Sinegal

Good, Opposition, Wages

The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.
James Sinegal

Top, Message, Floor

We always strive to be the best in the wage package.
James Sinegal

Best, Strive, Wage

We are a company that promotes 100% within the company.
James Sinegal

Within, Company, Promotes

We want to turn our inventory faster than our people.
James Sinegal

Turn, Inventory, Faster

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: January 1, 1936

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