Patrick Pichette Quotes

We've got some well-run corporations by some well-intended people who do it right.

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.

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.

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

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

For us, my wife and I and all of my partners believe that corporations have to be corporate citizens, and individuals who benefit from them, or who have built them, need to give back.

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

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

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.

Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.

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.

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

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

The question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not.

Industry leaders have the power to set standards.

Excessive pandering to stockholders is as bad as any other form of pandering

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

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.

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.

I believe that companies that have the opportunity to improve the lives of their customers and communities have the responsibility to do so.

American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.

Every technology company should have a red button somewhere in the headquarters where, if they realize they've caused more societal harm than they expected and done more harm than good, they press the button, and the company dissolves instantly.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel, just go back to what it was in terms of how corporations acted in terms of their collective responsibility just 20 years ago.