Wang Shi Quotes

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

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.

You don't succeed on corruption in five minutes. I wish one could.

Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time.

No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.

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

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.

We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.

Business does not go where there is corruption and the rule of law does not apply.

It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

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

Our core values and business ethics will always be paramount in all that we do, and we are always looking to do the right thing and settle claims fairly and accurately.

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.

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

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

I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.

The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

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.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.