Top 28 Quotes by James Sinegal

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

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.

In the final analysis, you get what you pay for.

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.

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

We would rather have our employees running our business.

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

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.

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.

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