John C. Bogle Quotes

I wouldn't want to manufacture cigarettes. But if I owned - we do own Costco. Do they sell them? Yes. So I don't have a problem owning stock in that. But I just wouldn't want to - I wouldn't want to do it myself. I basically think, if anything is sufficiently antisocial, society should do something about it. But that's a separate question. But - and I don't think there's any company that I have seen that's 100 percent pure.

I was really interested in a pretty simple thing: what happens when someone tries to introduce moral considerations into Wall Street, what happens when someone wants to actually demand of himself and those who work with him that what they do is not just profitable but good and useful.

I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.

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

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the preservation of the planet's natural resources

A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty.

Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.

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.

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

I tend to look at potential investments from the standpoint of whether it is a valuable contribution to society.

Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people.

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

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.

At Domini, we believe it's possible to make money and make a difference at the same time.

Markets need morals.

Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.

I actually am a capitalist, and I believe in shareholders. But I believe in them as a result of what I do, not as a reason for what I'm doing. The same with profits - profits alone cannot be an objective. It has to have a purpose.

We believe responsible business can be profitable business

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.

Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked.... There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to...engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.