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.

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.

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.

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

It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

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.

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