Ayn Rand Quotes

I pretty much believe, as everyone in the B Team does, that business must succeed beyond the bottom line. More important than profits is how you get to them. Measuring financial earnings and losses only is definitely not enough and has led us astray from creating a better world for all.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.

I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.

I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.

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

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.

Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.

Business must be the solution, not the problem.

Industry leaders have the power to set standards.

It should be as much the aim of those who seek social betterment to rid the business world of crimes of cunning as to rid the entire body politic of crimes of violence.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

My objection to interlocking directorates is not on the assumption that men mean to do wrong. It is because it is humanly impossible for a man representing conflicting interests on two boards and do right by both, no matter how pure his purpose is.

I used to have a lot more hair before I got involved with this milk business …. We don't have a lot of public support for our milk policies and that probably indicates we're doing it right.

The notion that a business is clothed with a public interest and has been devoted to the public use is little more than a fiction intended to beautify what is disagreeable to the sufferers.

Manufacturers have stood in the pillory for presuming to carry on their business by new and improved methods.

The time is coming when all businesses will have to be done with glass pockets.

General Electric recognizes that as a major economic entity it has the stature and responsibility to form opinions.

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.

Leaders must be reminded that Businesses exist for the service of men.

As for the calumnies, the insults, the angry cries outside, let them go on building up—no matter what height they reach, it will still fall short of my contempt.