"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."

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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

#Long Quotes #Worry Quotes #Next Quotes

“THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.”

Source : "Off the Time Track". Lecture in June 1952. "Technical Volumes of Dianetics and Scientology", Volume 1, p. 418, 1980.
“I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place.”
“This was something you had to work through on you own," Jason said. "Besides, I knew you'd do the right thing." "Oh, right," I said. I wanted to throw something at him. I really did. "And if I hadn't?" Now Jason brandished something he'd been holding behind his back. It was a golf club. "I figured Big Bertha here would drive them away," he said.”
“Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.”
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
“My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free.”
“We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.”
“I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear.”

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