Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

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

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

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.

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.

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

There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door.