David Chang Quotes

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.

Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.

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

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

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

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.

Business rests squarely on the law of service. It has for its main reliance truth and faith and justice …. It is one of the greatest contributing forces to the moral and spiritual enhancement of the race.

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.

It's hard to find good business partners and people who do good business the right way.

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.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun 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.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

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.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

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.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

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

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.

The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior.

I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.