Carolyn Wells Quotes

I'm not in business to make money.

I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad. Even though there are some people who do very well, like Marc Rich-who plainly has never had any decent ethics, or seldom anyway. But in the end, Warren Buffett has done better than Marc Rich-in money-not just in reputation.

We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don't think you should come anywhere near that line. We don't deserve much credit for this. It helps us make more money. I'd like to believe that we'd behave well even if it didn't work. But more often, we've made extra money from doing the right thing. Ben Franklin said I'm not moral because of it's the right thing to do - but because it's the best policy.

Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

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

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.

As a former U.S. attorney, I would only align myself with a first-class organization. World Patent Marketing goes beyond making statements about doing business 'ethically' and translates them into action.

When you start to get shareholders, clients, employees, rating agencies, and everybody converging, and then your competitors bad-mouth you, you know you did the right thing.

I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have.

If someone is doing that, saving the customer money, is making a profit so bad?

I am very strict on what products I want to associate myself with, and I felt that some things were just to make a buck.

We're in this business to make money, but then nobody wants to talk about how much money we're making. That's serious, but nobody will talk about it.

No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.

Integrity is the most needed to succeed in business.

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America.

Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

Profit is the celebration of service.

He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

The key word in profiteering is profit.