Business Ethics Quotes - Page 2

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

  Peter Singer

  Nursing, Engineering, Law

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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  Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Business

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “The Eyes of the Panther (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures)”, p.20, Read Books Ltd

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

  Seth Godin

  Responsibility, Unhappy, Fiduciary

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• Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

  Peter Singer

  School, Social Values, Long

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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• The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!

  Anil Ambani

  Party, Want, Retrospect

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• Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Determination, Business

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• We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

  Craig Newmark

  Running, Thinking, Trying

  "CRAIGSLIST / On the record: Craig Newmark". The SFGATE Interview, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2004.

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• Why are we trying to measure social media like a traditional channel anyway? Social media touches every facet of business and is more an extension of good business ethics.

  Erik Qualman

  Media, Trying, Ethics

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• There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

  Michel de Montaigne

  Responsibility, Sides, Ethics

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• It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business

  Daniel Katz

  Responsibility, Purpose, Ethics

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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• A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.

  Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

  Principles, Ethics, Action

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• Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• Participant (Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom line: social good plus financial returns. It's too early to tell how our returns are going to look - though all signs are promising - but social good is what we're really after.

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Looks, Lines, Return

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• The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress

  Irving Janis

  Powerful, Stress, Responsibility

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