27 James Sinegal Quotes on Success (COSTCO)

Top 10 Most Famous James Sinegal Quotes (BEST)

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity. — Paying good wages is not in opposition to good **productivity**.

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors. — When **employees** are **happy**, they are your very best ambassadors.

The one constant is value. Value is appreciated no matter where you go. — The one constant is value. Value is **appreciated** no matter where you go.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen. — When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a **career**, good things are going to happen.

Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business. — Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good **business**.

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

If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy. — If you’ve got to work for the rest of your life, you’d better do something you’ll enjoy.

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job. — You take an educated gamble. If you don’t occasionally make a mistake, you’re not doing your job.

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. — 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**.

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

7 James Sinegal Quotes on the Success of Costco

“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 D. Sinegal

We would rather have our employees running our business. — We would rather have our employees running our **business**.

We only have one bullet in our gun the right product at the right price. — We only have one bullet in our gun: the right product at the right price.

“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 D. Sinegal

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything. — It doesn’t do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

We are a company that promotes 100% within the company.

“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 D. Sinegal

4 James Sinegal Quotes on Salaries and Wages

“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 D. Sinegal

We always strive to be the best in the wage package.

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

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

3 WiseJames Sinegal Quotes that will Make You Think (WISDOM)

“Everybody is watching you every minute anyways. If they think the message you’re sending out is phony, they’re going to say, ‘Who does he think he is?’ It’s again good business. But it is also an obligation.”
James D. Sinegal

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

“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 D. Sinegal

3 James Sinegal Quotes on American’s Economy

“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 D. Sinegal