Lee R. Raymond Quotes

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

We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.

We have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good - always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, 'Don't be evil' seems the easiest way to summarize it.

If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.

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

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 future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.

Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.

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.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

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

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

Markets need morals.

It is no longer enough to have a good product. A company's purpose and the way it treats its employees and the global community to which it belongs is also of great importance.

The cultural issues, I think, at Wells Fargo went very, very deep. They have to unwind these cultural issues.

The value of an aware is inextricably linked to the character of the organization presenting it.

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.

At D.O.J., we don't want to go after the corporate wrongdoers simply as an end unto itself; we want to decrease the amount of corporate wrongdoing that happens in the first place. We want to restore and help protect the corporate culture of responsibility.

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity