Corporate Duty Quotes

I believe corporations that benefit from everything America has to offer should feel (ph) some sense of responsibility, not just to their biggest shareholders, but to their workers, to their customers, to their communities and, yes, to our country.

When a company owns a drug, it has a responsibility to make sure that the drug is available to all who need it.

A company and leaders of the company have the responsibility of the precious lives of all the human beings that work there.

To companies we have this message: You should keep the promises that you make to your employees.

I love the Knicks and Rangers, right, but you still have a responsibility to your shareholders. They're not there because they're fans. You don't invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a stock because you're a fan. You do it because you think that the business is going to increase in value, that the stock price is going to go up.

My whole life has been one theme of self-sacrifice for my investors.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

There is only one social responsibility of business

I’m not in the business of creating jobs.

I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.

Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.