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

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

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

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

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.

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

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.