Catherine Kinney Quotes

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

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.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

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.

You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.

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.

Transparency is so important in business.

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

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

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

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

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

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.

We follow highest level of corporate governance, which is in line with a global company like ours.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

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.

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.

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

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