James Sinegal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It doesn't do much good to have a quality image, whether it's with the facility or whether it's with the merchandise, if you don't have real quality people taking care of your customers.
-- James Sinegal

#Real #People #Quality
When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.
-- James Sinegal

#Ambassadors #Employee
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.
-- James Sinegal

#Thinking #Views #Decision
Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.
-- James Sinegal

#Attitude #Business #People
You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
-- James Sinegal

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

#Years #Size #Management
I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.
-- James Sinegal

#Running #Motivation #Thinking
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.
-- James Sinegal

#Dream #Fighting #People
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.
-- James Sinegal

#Strong #Class #Want
When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.
-- James Sinegal

#Jobs #Careers #People
You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.
-- James Sinegal

#Jobs #Mistake #Educated
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.
-- James Sinegal

#Business #Doors #Nuts
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.
-- James Sinegal

#Salary #Messages #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.
-- James Sinegal

#Business #Income #Add
Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company and performing for the long term. I know everyone says that, that sounds trite when I repeat it that way, but that is and has always been our attitude about our business. If we do the right things, the stock price will take care of itself, and our shareholders will be rewarded.
-- James Sinegal

#Attitude #Business #Long
In the final analysis, you get what you pay for.
-- James Sinegal

#Finals #Analysis #Pay
Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.
-- James Sinegal

#Good Business #Employee #Wells
If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.
-- James Sinegal

#Eye #Goal #Care
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.
-- James Sinegal

#Jobs #Attitude #Thinking
Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.
-- James Sinegal

#Wages #Productivity
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.
-- James Sinegal

#Long #Worry #Next
Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.
-- James Sinegal

#Art #Technology #Helping
If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.
-- James Sinegal

#Enjoy
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.
-- James Sinegal

#Jobs #Men #Years
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.
-- James Sinegal

#Messages #Salary #Factories
If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.
-- James Sinegal

#Lying #People #Want
You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.
-- James Sinegal

#Loss #Class #Dynamics

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