Andrew Solomon Quotes

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

It is vital to any organization, to be strong and effective, to be ethical.

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.

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

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.

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.

We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

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.

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

There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

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

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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

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

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

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

It is not true that people of high principle are ill-suited for politics.

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.

Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.

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.