Wang Jianlin Quotes

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

What is good for you is not necessarily good for the company, and vice versa.

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

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.

No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

I want our company to leave a legacy of learning to find the balance between what's good and what's good for you.

The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.

It worries me about what happens if people in government are looking for that next job: 'Yeah I'm working now, not as much money as I could be making, but when I leave here, that's where I'm headed.' That ultimately infects whatever it is that they're doing.

Whenever any one of them [world leaders] hath striven to improve its country’s condition, his motive hath been his own gain

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

Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

The label does what's good for the label. Always.

We have too much respect for our father to make a Bush Beer or write books or do anything that's self-serving. I know all of us will avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest with the government and bend over backward to stay out of the news.

I don't want to do anything that capitalizes personally on the fact that I've been in public service.

Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

Fooles give to please all but their owne.

Donald Trump abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country's.

Good design should follow looking into the products and reputation of clients who approach you, but this does not mean you have to follow them into bed.

Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.