Howard Schultz Quotes

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

Transparency is so important in business.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

With me, I'm going to have a label where no one is ever cheated, ever.

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

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'

I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.

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

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.

I think you have an obligation to be honest.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

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

If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

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.