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.

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

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

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

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

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

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.