When Employees Are Happy, They Are Your

You Could Raise The Price Of, Say, A Bottle Of Ketchup To $1.03 Instead Of $1, And No One Would Know. Raising Prices Just 3% Per Product Would Add 50% To Your Pretax Income. Why Not Do It? It's Like Heroin: You Do A Little And You Want A Little Bit More. Raising Prices Is The Easy Way.

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.

Paying Good Wages Is Not In Opposition To Good Productivity.

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.

I Say At Our Management Conferences That The Amount Wal-mart Grows In Just One Year Is The Equivalent Of Costco's Size.