James Sinegal
James Sinegal
James D. Sinegal is the co-founder and former CEO of Costco, an international retail chain...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth1 January 1936
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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It's even more important to hire good people and give them good jobs and good wages. They are the people who are going to run your business.
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We would rather have our employees running our business.
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The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.
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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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We always strive to be the best in the wage package.
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If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.
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We want to turn our inventory faster than our people.
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We are a company that promotes 100% within the company.
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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.
strong class wages
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.
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It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.
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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.
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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.