Warren Buffett Quotes

In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.

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.

There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

I have learned that the ethics of the so-called markets can be different from what we learn at school. In day-to-day life you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term it always pays off to be ethical.

You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.

Just do this one thing: promise yourself you'll never deal underhanded to anybody. You'll be honest in all of your business dealings. That is hard. Conquer that one. Demand it of yourself. Demand a higher standard for yourself and your children and do it.

Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.

There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.

I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other things as well.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

Honor your commitments with integrity.

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