Mark Pincus Quotes

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

I think culture is a big word for corporate character.

I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

Many companies claim they have core values, but typically what they're referring to are generic beliefs: having integrity, making a profit, responding to customers and so on. These values only have meaning when they're defined in terms of how people behave and are ranked to set priorities.

If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it.

Our culture is the foundation for our company.

The people inside the company are the people who define GE, not the people outside the company.

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

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

You make sure to set True Norths for your company. You can't be involved in every decision and every meeting; you have to make sure the mission is very built into the culture, the product, and how you communicate.

I think companies psych themselves out and say, 'Now that we're public, we've got to get all stuffy. We've got to be a certain way,' and the entrepreneurial spirit dies. What you got to keep alive is the intimacy, the energy, this crazed sense of purpose.

The more a business is able to develop and articulate a core purpose and engage with millennials, who equate purpose with business excellence, the greater chances for long-term success.

People say values are expensive, but I say they create economic value.

It used to be you could just write vaguely conservative things while running a Starbucks - now, you can't.

The bar for a chief executive of a public corporation to repudiate a United States president is extraordinarily high. Corporate leaders aren't given their power, prestige, responsibility, and nine-figure pay packages to use the corner office as their personal soapbox.

I don't view Apple or myself as an activist. What we do is for some things where we think we have deep knowledge, or think we do, or a strong point of view, we're not shy. We'll stand up, speak out - even when our voice shakes.

While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the right thing to do?

Blackstone is not really a business per se. It's a mission to be the best.

You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.

I am a person who does not subscribe to the hero-CEO school of thought.