Social Responsibility Quotes

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  You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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  Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.

  Carrie Underwood

  Responsibility, Successful, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kwanzaa, True Joy, Privilege And Responsibility

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• There is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

  Milton Friedman

  Responsibility, Social, Increase

  "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits By Milton Friedman". James Duffy, Original article from the New York Times Magazine, www.morethanaccountants.co.uk. September 13, 1970.

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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

  Anita Roddick

  Responsibility, Greed, Should

  Anita Roddick, Cheryl Rickman (2005). “The Small Business Start-up Workbook: A step-by-step guide to starting the business you've dreamed of”, p.227, Hachette UK

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• Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

  John Foster Dulles

  Responsibility, Hands, Long

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• I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and their communities.

  Jack Welch

  Strong, Believe, Responsibility

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• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Business, Integrity, Bad Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

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• We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Gone, Instinct

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, People, Care

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.

  Michael Porter

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value" by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2011.

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• Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational Life, Responsibility, Successful

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Responsibility, Rights, Justice

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• Corporate Social Responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing us to do it because it is good for our business

  Niall FitzGerald

  Nice, Responsibility, People

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• Ethics is the new competitive environment

  Peter Robinson

  Responsibility, Ethics, Environment

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• Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human rights, and the preservation of the planet's natural resources

  David Miliband

  Business, Responsibility, Rights

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• The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.

  Dean Koontz

  Responsibility, Justice, World

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• I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

  Chris Patten

  Believe, Responsibility, Hands

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• Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that 'purchasing is always a moral-and not simply an economic-act.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Together, Moral

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• Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Meaningful, Recovery, Responsibility

  Jeffrey Sachs (2011). “The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall”, p.3, Random House

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• There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Responsibility, Moral

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• A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Responsibility, Successful, Social

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