Quotes about Corporate Honesty

Bernard Baruch

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.

Albert J. Beveridge

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.

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Francis Kelsey

I had the feeling after a meeting with company executives that they were at no time wholly frank with me, and this attitude has obtained in all our conferences, etc. regarding this drug.

Despite huge lobbying and political pressure, Dr. Kelsey would not sign off on the drug initially because she found information on her own about Thalidomide that the company, Merrell, must have known about and didn't reveal to her and her staff or in their applications. She was aware that the drug had been approved by England, Canada, and many nations of Europe, but she saw little data in the Merrell submissions and responses and that made her suspicious, and caused her to demand more. During the time the company was to submit more data, the reports of the deformed newborns were starting to come in from the countries that had approved the drug. When she gathered that information, she rejected the application and prevented thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of children to be born with missing limbs because their mothers had been treated with Thalidomide. In 1962 she was awarded the highest civilian medal by President John F. Kennedy.

Hunter S. Thompson

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Sheldon Whitehouse

The bottom line is this: A private company and/or its industry allies should not knowingly lie to the American people about the harms that are caused by its product.

Sherron Watkins

I hope we’re on the road to more truth-telling to investors.

Anita Roddick

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

Bennie Thompson

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

Gavin Esler

Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.

Edmund Phelps

Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

Corporate Honesty Quotes