Steven Burd Quotes

#1. People like to work for a winner.

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#2. The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

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#3. We've been paying for 100 percent of preventive care. But if you're not getting annual physicals, then you're not going to gain a financial incentive, so effectively your insurance premium with us will go up.

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#4. You know that a lot of people go to emergency rooms when they don't really need to.

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#5. The first job I ever had was right here in San Francisco with Southern Pacific.

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#6. What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you look at other forms of retail, whether they be food or non-food, we pay more. If you look at our health care benefits, we pay a lot more.

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#7. If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.

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#8. We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

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#9. In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance.

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#10. I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further.

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#11. I'm no health care expert, but you've got technology that constantly advances the ability to extend life and maybe improve lifestyle. That puts constant upward pressure on health care costs.

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#12. We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.

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#13. The first person a customer speaks with has the greatest impact on that customer's impression of Safeway.

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