commercial integrity Quotes

The merchants of old Cairo are honest in their dealings, and if one of them is caught cheating a customer, he is mounted on a camel with a bell in his hand and paraded about the city, ringing the bell and crying out, 'I have committed a misdemeanor and am suffering reproach. Whosoever tells a lie is rewarded with public disgrace.' The grocers, druggists, and peddlers furnish sacks for everything they sell, whether glass, pottery, or papers; therefore, there is no need for shoppers to take their own bags with them

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in the medium which carries the dishonest advertisement. . . . No one can be ill in a community without endangering others; no advertiser can be dishonest without casting suspicion upon others.

When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done commercials or been sponsored. And I wasn't after their money.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

To guard and to deal with others' goods as one's own is considered as the mark of proper trade among merchants.