You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.
I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.
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.
If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.
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 you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.
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.
