George W. Bush Quotes

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

Our society does not give nearly enough credit to business leaders who create jobs, behave ethically and provide products and services that enhance our lives.

We have to raise the bar on corporate governance. Shareholders want ethical behavior and honesty.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

All businesses that create wealth, pay their taxes and comply with the law are, by definition, good companies.

We believe responsible business can be profitable business

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.

There is only one social responsibility of business

There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.

A company not under sanction is just like any other company, period.

While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.

Our core values and business ethics will always be paramount in all that we do, and we are always looking to do the right thing and settle claims fairly and accurately.

A healthy corporation acts on the interests of its stakeholders and customers.

American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.

Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.

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.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

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.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.