Guy Spier Quotes

I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.

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

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.

If you're as honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.

Work with integrity and succeed with integrity

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

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.

One thing I have always promised is to be open and transparent and to treat employees and partners with respect and integrity.

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

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

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

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

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

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

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

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.

We want to be sure that it is more profitable to play by the rules than it is to game the system.

Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

The business of America is business, but it's about high-integrity business. It's about a business where you keep your word, where you make square deals.

One of the great things about my mother is she really valued people's character more than what they did.