Quotes About Business And Ethics

#1. We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.

Robert Bruner

#2. For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them.

G.E. Moore

#3. Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.

Michael J. Marx

#4. Thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.

Hetty Green

#5. Living up to your commitments is part of business ethics. My word is my bond.

Isadore Sharp

#6. There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit.

Michael Josephson

#7. Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

Herschel Walker

#8. Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business ... because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

Stefan Molyneux

#9. You would be surprised at how many corporations "none of your business" applies to!

Steven Magee

#10. Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

Alan Sakowitz

#11. You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.

Steven Levitt

#12. Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.

Kerry Stokes

#13. In just about every gangster movie there is a scene where the mob boss says, 'Hey, I'm just a businessman.

William Hageman

#14. Through your influence, vision, ethics and authenticity you create a better reality for your family, community and organisation, where those around you and those who follow you are inspired to dream, learn and act

Craig Dent

#15. Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Albert Einstein

#16. The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

Seth Godin

#17. If your client has a problem with ethics, a signed contract may not be enough to protect you from expensive litigation.

Paul E. Casey

#18. Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Raymond Chandler

#19. Why are we trying to measure social media like a traditional channel anyway? Social media touches every facet of business and is more an extension of good business ethics.

Erik Qualman

#20. Lack of ethics is so ingrained in the financial industry that they are not even aware of it any more. It's just business as usual for them.

Robert Rolih

#21. Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics.

Walter Russell

#22. A healthy corporate culture is built through proper man-management techniques put into action, which in turn aids in shaping a peacefully coherent work environment with healthy interactions capable of drawing out the maximum potential from the employed.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#23. A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.

Robert L. Bradley Jr.

#24. Because every exchange is always a relationship, to get the most while giving the least is unjust, unethical, antisocial, abusive, perhaps 'evil.' Yet predatory commerce ("the free market" as it is euphemistically called) operates regularly on the principle of 'get the most and pay the least.

James Hillman

#25. I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.

Robert A. Heinlein

#26. A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

Andrew Carnegie

#27. While mistakes may be local, in today's connected world embarrassment is global

Gyan Nagpal

#28. I charge my clients for my time and expertise, my heart is free.

Saurabh Gupta

#29. It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business

Daniel Katz

#30. Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

Peter Singer

#31. Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.

Michael J. Marx

#32. There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind
you have to adhere to the highest standards.

Marvin Bower

#33. Of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened ... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after their dead. It didnt take long for ethics to be crushed by greed. Unwinding became big business, and people let it happen

Neal Shusterman

#34. Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

Jerry Saltz

#35. Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

Robin Williams

#36. A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present.

Michael J. Marx

#37. If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

Robert Noyce

#38. Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.

Lionel Tiger

#39. I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.

Billy Corgan

#40. Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.

Achille Silvestrini

#41. Ben Franklin said:
"Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy wealthy and wise"
Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:
"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#42. The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.

Adam Michnik

#43. Because we are a globally connected village, we need
to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have
a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#44. Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.

Ofra Strauss

#45. It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

John Harvey-Jones

#46. Google's motto - "Don't be evil" - is in part a branding ploy, but it's also characteristic of a kind of business that's successful enough to take ethics seriously without jeopardizing its own existence.

Peter Thiel

#47. Economics without ethics is a caricature. Ethics without economics is a fairy tale.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#48. While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.

Jamshyd Godrej

#49. The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!

Anil Ambani

#50. Being good is good business

Anita Roddick

#51. He is Your Customer, the Reason behind Your Customs.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#52. Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

Peter Singer