Frank Abagnale Quotes

If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

Trust and transparency, the great principles of the free market, are at stake here.

A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance -- checks and doublechecks and so forth -- you could create a better result in the world. Well, Berkshire has had practically no process. We had hardly any internal auditing until they forced it on us. We just try to operate in a seamless web of deserved trust and be careful whom we trust.

When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

One thing I have always promised is to be open and transparent and to treat employees and partners with respect and integrity.

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling.

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

That is all you can ask, for a manager to be honest and tell you how things are.

We've done all the work that needs to be done on the inside to make sure there's no malfeasance inside Chrysler.

With me, I'm going to have a label where no one is ever cheated, ever.

I fully support accountability and transparency.

Transparency is so important in business.

Preventing staff from having too much influence and decision-making power is fairly easy. Appropriate procedural safeguards can be installed to prevent staff from, among other things, self-dealing, making decisions in an isolated manner, or committing funds without oversight.

We either believe in accountability or we don't.

My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.

Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.

The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior.