Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

We mean to make little business big, and all business honest, instead of striving to make Big Business little, and yet letting it remain dishonest.

Your friends are merely proposing to waste their good money. If I am Governor, whenever business is honest I will encourage it without a hundred thousand dollar bribe. If their business is dishonest, not all the money in Wall Street would influence my attitude toward it. Honest business needs no bribe.

No man can make a million dollars honestly.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

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

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

A free enterprise system that is not underlaid with values is bankrupt.

Most of the people I came across in the finance and business world were honest people, doing the best for their staff and for their family. But I encountered many who weren't.

I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

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.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.

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

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.