最近一直在想Costco何以成为Costco,除了大家分析的商业模式,企业文化可能更重要,看到山姆近期的动作,联想到James的维基百科上的一段话:
In an interview published in the Houston Chronicle on July 17, 2005, he (James Sinegal, served as Costco's CEO from 1983 until 2011) told Steven Greenhouse that he did not care about Wall Street analysts who had criticized him for putting good treatment of employees and customers ahead of pleasing shareholders. Investors might want higher earnings, but Sinegal stated, "We want to build a company that will still be here 50 and 60 years from now." A favorite quote attributed to Sinegal, in part about his philosophy on dealing with success, is "You have to take the shit with the sugar". Investors who bought $10,000 of Costco stock in 1992 found it worth $43,564 just 10 years later — a return of 354% (15.855%, annually). From 1985, when Costco went public, to 2020, the company's stock value increased 19,000%