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.

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.

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.

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.

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