Marc Benioff Quotes

I believe we must go further in redefining what United's corporate citizenship looks like in our society... and we intend to live up to those higher expectations in the way we embody social responsibility and civic leadership everywhere we operate.

The companies that are the most influential and most successful are the ones that care about impact and the influence they have on the world.

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.

I think CSR, corporate social responsibility, is something that is becoming front and center.

Corporations in communities need to be better neighbors.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

A lot of people say that I'm an activist CEO. I just think I'm a responsible leader of a business.

Every once in a while, brave companies step out and act in ways that move customers and shareholders to also act in good faith.

For millennials, conducting business with a purpose that goes beyond making profits is critically important in determining the kind of company they want to work for - and the kind of company with whom they are willing to do business.

Are businesses really benefitting if their communities are suffering? It doesn't seem like it.

So many tech companies have embraced a mission that they say is larger than profits. Once you wrap yourself up in a moral flag, you have to carry it to the top of other hills.

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

Charitable involvement, social impact, and global responsibility have always been important at Bain Capital.

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.

The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

I like to bring people together so we don't waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the wrong things when we know better. Corporate America makes great things and things that can hurt us. They have to be part of the solutions. There's nothing to say you don't make a profit by doing good.

What is good for society is also good for business.

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.

Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values.

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.