Charlie Munger Quotes

Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.

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

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.

I demand that every Storm Troop Leader, just as every political leader, should be conscious of the fact that his behavior and conduct must be exemplary. . . . I wish every mother to give her son to The Party without fearing that he may be ruined morally. . . . Storm Troop Leaders who behave unworthily in public are to be mercilessly removed.

I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.

I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.

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?

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.

Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people.

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

The President was a responsibility beyond that of managing the government. He has a responsibility as a moral leader.

Everything we do as teachers has moral overtones.

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

Americans should expect far more from a president than merely that he not be provably a criminal. They should expect a president to comport himself in accordance with the high duties of his office.

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.

Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

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

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.

Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power.

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.