Costco Quotes:

I buy everything from CostCo. It's great; they've got everything I need.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Needs, Costco

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

- James Sinegal

source: "Online Extra: At Costco, 'Good Jobs and Good Wages'". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

topic: Costco, Ifs

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Tourism, Tourists, Culture, Costco

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.

- James Sinegal

topic: Strong, Class, Want, Costco

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

- Rooney Mara

source: "Rooney Mara: Playing with Fire". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. October 17, 2011.

topic: School, Weekend, Littles, Suburbs, Costco

It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can literally get them at Costco, three-for-20.

- Darryl Sutter

topic: Morning, Reading, Good Day, Costco, Reading Glasses

I like the normal things of life: I like the Mets, and the Celtics, and the N.Y. Rangers. I like to watch C-Span; I love Costco.

- Robert Morse

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Normal, Watches, Mets, Costco, Normal Things

I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.

- James Sinegal

topic: Thinking, Views, Decision, Costco

I'll never be the sort of author who sells that many copies. You'll never see a book of mine being sold on a table at Costco, between the extra-large jorts and a barrel of salsa. And I wouldn't have it any other way. I'll be indie till I die.

- Joshua Mohr

topic: Book, Tables, Way, Salsa, Costco

I’m sort of like Costco. I’m big, I’m not fancy and I dare you to not like me.

- Eric Stonestreet

topic: Costco

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.

- Megan Fox

topic: Tattoo, Roles, Hollywood, Costco

There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door.

- James Sinegal

topic: Business, Doors, Nuts, Costco

Your main contribution is spray painting your nickname on other people's things. And my cousin, who's a 'gangster', he's like, 'No, Tash, you don't understand; you throw a fat piece up there, that piece is yours.' I'm like, 'No one thinks you own Costco.'

- Natasha Leggero

topic: Funny, Cousin, Humor, Costco

Republicans go to Sam’s Club, Democrats go to Costco.

- Gillian Flynn

source: Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.119, Crown

topic: Clubs, Republican, Democrat, Costco

Lenscrafters is upset with Tea Partier Michele Bachmann because she called Planned Parenthood 'the Lenscrafters of abortion.' Lenscrafters released a statement today calling her 'the Costco of crazy.'

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Crazy, Abortion, Upset, Costco

Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Thinking, Benefits, Pay, Costco, Health Benefits

I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.

- Bernard Hopkins

topic: Motivation, Years, Two, Costco, Two Years

Everyone thinks Angelina Jolie was the first celebrity baby hoarder, but she wasn't. Before Angelina there was Mia Farrow. Mia had an entire farm full of children. I think she got them at Costco.

- Joan Rivers

source: Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.20, Penguin

topic: Baby, Children, Thinking, Mia, Costco

Kellogg's and Campbell's moats have also shrunk due to the increased buying power of supermarkets and companies like Wal-Mart. The muscle power of Wal-Mart and Costco has increased dramatically.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Moats, Buying, Muscles, Costco, Buying Power

I see almost no change in the price of the composite product that flows through Costco I don't feel sorry for the people who pay $27 million for an 8,000-square-foot condo in Manhattan. So inflation comes in places.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Sorry, Squares, Feet, Costco

My idea of a good place to shop is Costco - it has these heavily marbled fillet steaks. The idea of eating some wheat thing and washing it down with carrot juice has never appealed to me.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Ideas, Juice, Wheat, Costco, Good Place

Black-Scholes is a know-nothing system. If you know nothing about value - only price - then Black-Scholes is a pretty good guess at what a 90-day option might be worth. But the minute you get into longer periods of time, it's crazy to get into Black-Scholes. For example, at Costco we issued stock options with strike prices of $30 and $60, and Black-Scholes valued the $60 ones higher. This is insane.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Crazy, Black, Insane, Stock Options, Costco

I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.

- Dave Grohl

topic: Romance, Dinner, Now And Then, Candlelight, Costco

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

- James Sinegal

topic: Years, Size, Management, Costco

My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

- Jill Scott

topic: Mean, Grandmother, Debt, Costco

In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Winning, Investing, Variables, Maximizing, Costco