Joel Salatin Quotes

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.

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

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

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

If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it.

Values can set a company apart from the competition by clarifying its identity and serving as a rallying point for employees. But coming up with strong values - and sticking to them - requires real guts.

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 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.

Amazon is certainly not a perfect company. However, doctors, teachers, engineers, journalists, politicians, and labor unions are also on a continuum of consciousness, and none are perfect either. It is easy to judge and find fault with any company if that is what one's ideological biases wish to see.

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.

Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.

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

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

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

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

Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

For me, I've learned about what it means to focus on a culture, to build social responsibility, and the idea of a company as a super-organism.

To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

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

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 don't think it's wrong for companies to work with the government. What's important is being trustworthy and honest with customers.

I fully support accountability and transparency.

A company's ethical behavior is ultimately triggered by some sense of caring. And care is a sense of closeness to someone or something. A company must bring value to whom or what it is close to.