When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.
How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.
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.
If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.
I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.
We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the businessman is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals.
Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.
Costco pays their workers good wages with benefits while selling good products at competitive prices and remaining quite profitable.
Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.
