Business Values Quotes

In Canada, there's a surprising worship of managerialism versus ownership and wealth creation. There's a real problem in this country with believing that management is the answer to our problems.

Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

Managing by values - not by profits - is a powerful process that will set your business on the path to becoming what I call a 'Fortunate 500' company.

The business of America is business, but it's about high-integrity business. It's about a business where you keep your word, where you make square deals.

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

A brand is simply a set of beliefs. And if you don't create a set of beliefs around your products or services, well, you stand for nothing - you have no values and no vision.

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

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Integrity is the most needed to succeed in business.

A profit is not without honor save in Boston.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned is that there has got to be a reason for what you're doing. You actually have to care about what you're doing. The business has to be about something. Whatever the point of it is does not have to be inconsistent with making money, but usually if that's the sole reason, it is not very successful.

No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a forest ranger The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, and Jack Welchs of the business world are heroes to no one except other businessmen with similar values.

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.

We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

Building my family and my business in Jasper has taught me so much in my life, and one of those lessons is to always put people first.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.

Our enduring values as a company are the most important of our mission and purpose.

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

I want you to say to me right from the start, "We are here to serve customers. We're not here for me to make a lot of money. We're not here to bet on interest rates or credit spreads. We are here to serve our customers really well over a long period of time, and that's how you build a successful business." And so I want to see that, too, you know?

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.