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

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

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.

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

I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.

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.

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