Victor Kiam Quotes

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards. And it's much easier to do business with someone when you look them in the eye and say, "This is what we're going to do," and you understand what you each mean, and you can go away and get it done.

Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal isn't a deal.

There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

Integrity is the most needed to succeed in business.

Work with integrity and succeed with integrity

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people will give you good information, and if you are truthful to everybody, they will be truthful to you." That's what's different about Google. They screw up and make mistakes, but they genuinely mean the good stuff about "don't be evil."

We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'

I did not have a reputation to defend.

If you are sincere and true to your work, you will be respected. And for me, respect is power.

There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.

Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that's not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it's hard-nosed fact.

In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.

My business affairs are entirely proper, and no amount of smear, rumour or innuendo will alter that fact.

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

My career is based on openness and honesty.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the deal. No contracts, just a handshake and that's it, done. That's the way I prefer to do business but it's not always possible these days, sadly.