Eric Schmidt Quotes

My own feeling is that a corporation has no right to have a political or social influence.

A lot of people like the idea of companies being socially involved in their community, but if you want big companies to get involved in social issues, what makes you think they're going to come down on your side?

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

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

A lot of people say that I'm an activist CEO. I just think I'm a responsible leader of a business.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

I admire companies that give back to communities. It is an absolute essential for organizations to watch, mitigate, and improve their impact on the environment, people, communities, their health and overall well-being. But this is a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition.

I do think, actually, one thing I noticed with Silicon Valley post-Trump is it kind of made them more politically aware, more aware that, like, business and philanthropy alone isn't going to make the world a better place.

As business leaders, we should not choose between profit or good; rather, we must choose to profit from good. And that requires connecting what we do with a purpose beyond profit - a reason to exist that meets our shared sense of 'doing good.'

I believe that companies that have the opportunity to improve the lives of their customers and communities have the responsibility to do so.

The corporate sector in my view is the most important since it is actively involved in the shaping of our life on the planet. The corporate world has the power and the means to influence politics and public trends.

As CEO of Unilever, my personal mission is to galvanize our company to be an effective force for good.

We can no longer pretend that business is immune from the rising tide of environmental or social challenges or that companies can create value in isolation from the communities of which they are a part.

Are businesses really benefitting if their communities are suffering? It doesn't seem like it.

I believe we must go further in redefining what United's corporate citizenship looks like in our society... and we intend to live up to those higher expectations in the way we embody social responsibility and civic leadership everywhere we operate.

Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.

So many tech companies have embraced a mission that they say is larger than profits. Once you wrap yourself up in a moral flag, you have to carry it to the top of other hills.

We have an unwavering commitment to our social responsibility program; it's good for business, and we know it's the right thing to do.

If you're not in the business to improve society, you shouldn't be in business.

The marketing business has been just about promoting things, but we don't believe that anymore. There has to be a societal component, too.

Let the corporations do as they please -- pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets -- and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.

Some people would argue the other side: that the business of business is business, and companies should only be focused on profits. But in today's world, I don't think corporations can only be focused on profits, because they are inextricably linked with the communities that they serve. I do not believe you can be a leader in your industry without being a leader in your community. It's a fundamental shift in how you think about business.

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.