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.

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

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

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.

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.

Our attitude has always been that if you hire good people and provide good wages and good jobs and more than that - if you provide careers - that good things will happen to your company. I think we can say that that has been proved by the quality of people that we have and how they have built our organization.

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.