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.

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

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

I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

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.

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