Michelle King Quotes

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

The legal and ethical issues are just beginning.

Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas.

Corporate leaders surely have their problems, I believe that most CEOs are doing their best to hew to the ethical line. The problem is that that line has gotten blurred and that our moral standard seems to be "if everybody else is doing it, it's okay". That's not good enough for me.

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.

Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

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

It's easy to get into the grey zone [of ethics].

We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics.

Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.

What is morally correct and what is legally correct are not always the same thing.

Ethics is not a job that anyone turns to naturally, but every public agency has to have it.

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

I think it would be much better for the country and for Clinton personally to resign. I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone.

It was a morally representative act. Helms withheld the information because it would have cost him his job.

Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.

It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any investigation of their scheme.

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

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

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

I will always do what's best for the company.

Can a bank that is part of this society be sure that it has no bad apples? No, because, like in all other industries and companies, it's about people, and what you see is the reflection of the good and bad in society. So you employ people that you think are honest, but you have to manage them more and more with an eye towards missteps.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

I have tended to speak out on the issues that are in the purview of my professional expertise - business ethics, corporate ethics, and government ethics.