Mangosuthu Buthelezi Quotes

I believe we must go further in redefining what United's corporate citizenship looks like in our society... and we intend to live up to those higher expectations in the way we embody social responsibility and civic leadership everywhere we operate.

Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.

Businesses need to proactively create models that make a difference in society and let everyone else use them, talk about them, emulate them - and build on them.

Businesses cannot be extricated or disintermediated from the communities they serve. Businesses who do that will do that at their own peril. They will draw fire. And companies who are integrated will be lauded by their communities and not draw fire.

I think CSR, corporate social responsibility, is something that is becoming front and center.

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

The companies that are the most influential and most successful are the ones that care about impact and the influence they have on the world.

Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

What is good for society is also good for business.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

What helps people, helps business.

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

I believe business has to do well and that the surrounding communities do well.

I've been very inspired by Virgin's model of business as a force for good.

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

I think one purpose is very clear among corporations and business leaders: make profits, deliver high return for stockholders, conquer markets, service consumers and create jobs. But in today's world, demands from corporations and leaders are much more than that. We need to understand what people really want at the very end.

So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.

All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a disaster are enormous.

Transparency, accountability and sustainability have become the slogans of the market leaders. Companies carry out environmental and social audits to court the consumer, and even the bluest chips woo organisations such as Greenpeace and Amnesty.

Godrej is committed towards improving quality of life in society.

Leaders must be reminded that Businesses exist for the service of men.