James Sinegal Quotes

• 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

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

  James Sinegal

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

  James Sinegal

• 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 Sinegal

• 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

• 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

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

  James Sinegal

• 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

• Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

  James Sinegal

• 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

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

  James Sinegal

• 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

• 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

• When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

  James Sinegal

• 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

• We would rather have our employees running our business.

  James Sinegal

• We want to turn our inventory faster than our people.

  James Sinegal

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

  James Sinegal

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

  James Sinegal

• One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.

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