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

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Source : "Online Extra: At Costco, 'Good Jobs and Good Wages'". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

James Sinegal

#Finals Quotes #Analysis Quotes #Pay Quotes

“What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.”
“You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.”
“Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.”
“I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustnâ€™t be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to take its course over time. I pictured it as a butterfly, simultaneously beautiful and fragile, that once afloat belonged to the air and any attempt to grab at it would only destroy it.”

Source : Daniel Tammet (2007). “Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
“If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.”
“Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists? What are your rituals?' It's: 'Is your culture safe or not? Will it produce terrorists?'”
“Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.”
“Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 51), February 26, 1964.

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