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.
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.
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.
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.
We want to turn our inventory faster than our people.
