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

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

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

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

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.

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 have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.