Astro Teller Quotes

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.

The question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not.

A company's ethical behavior is ultimately triggered by some sense of caring. And care is a sense of closeness to someone or something. A company must bring value to whom or what it is close to.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

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.

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

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

People should be encouraged by things like awards given for corporate governance practices.

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.

If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That's why legislation and regulations are necessary.

The Church raises the question concerning the need to establish comprehensive control over transnational corporations and the processes taking place in the financial sector of economy. This control, aimed to subject any entrepreneurial and financial activity to the interests of man and people, should be exercised through all mechanisms available in society and state.

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

The bar for a chief executive of a public corporation to repudiate a United States president is extraordinarily high. Corporate leaders aren't given their power, prestige, responsibility, and nine-figure pay packages to use the corner office as their personal soapbox.

You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.

You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices.

I am a person who does not subscribe to the hero-CEO school of thought.

Markets need morals.

If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it.