Richard Branson Quotes

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Being good is good business

We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

I think it's important for industry to do well. But I want them to do well and do good at the same time.

All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.

As a former U.S. attorney, I would only align myself with a first-class organization. World Patent Marketing goes beyond making statements about doing business 'ethically' and translates them into action.

Doing good is good for business.

I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad. Even though there are some people who do very well, like Marc Rich-who plainly has never had any decent ethics, or seldom anyway. But in the end, Warren Buffett has done better than Marc Rich-in money-not just in reputation.

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

What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.

We believe responsible business can be profitable business

If you run your business fairly; if you treat people well; if you try to move your business into areas that are making a real positive difference to other peoples lives; I think you'll A. have much pleasant life, but B. I think you'll have a much more successful business.

It turns out that doing the right thing, treating people right, is also the right thing for the company.

When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best.

In our way of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity.

I have learned that the ethics of the so-called markets can be different from what we learn at school. In day-to-day life you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term it always pays off to be ethical.

I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.

I have always believed that business should be a force for good.

If you pretend that business is beyond morality, that's the kind of morality you get.

Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.