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
James Sinegal quotes about
jobs attitude thinking
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.
messages salary brilliance
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.
wages opposition productivity
Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.
messages salary stores
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.
running motivation thinking
I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.
jobs men years
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.
rest-of-your-life enjoy ifs
If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.
loss class dynamics
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.
american-businessman
We want to turn our inventory faster than our people.
generally good hire
If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.
american-businessman best wage
We always strive to be the best in the wage package.
afford american-businessman children homes middle send strengths
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.
again business everybody good message minute sending watching
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.
brilliance floor store worker
The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.