J. P. Morgan Quotes

I hope we’re on the road to more truth-telling to investors.

The future will find one of its great problems is deciding how big a business enterprise must become before the public is entitled to know the full details of its management.

I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.

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.

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

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.

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.

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can't make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.

If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.

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

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

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.

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.

I would rather be responsible and accountable and help to reward the public shareholders going ahead.

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent.

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

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.

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.