Lane Kiffin Quotes

A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.

We follow highest level of corporate governance, which is in line with a global company like ours.

I don't know the extent to which they do business [ in Wells Fargo]. I just want to see how this thing continues to unfold and if they have a legitimately major change in their culture.

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.

I don't believe very much in corporate offices. I believe in leaders who are with their customers and their people.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.

At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

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.

Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.

When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

I don't do any corporate work.

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

Industry leaders have the power to set 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.

Excessive pandering to stockholders is as bad as any other form of pandering

If our great corporations would more scrupulously observe their legal limitations and duties, they would have less cause to complain of the unlawful limitations of their rights or of violent interference with their operations.

You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.

Culture is what happens when the CEO isn't in the room.