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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.