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

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

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.