Chetan Bhagat Quotes

It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

A free enterprise system that is not underlaid with values is bankrupt.

I'm not interested in business for business's sake.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Corporations are not capable of doing things out of the goodness of their hearts. They don’t have hearts.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated—unfairly so in my opinion. … there's nothing wrong with avarice as a motive as long as it doesn't lead to dishonest … conduct.

The railroads are not run for the benefit of the 'dear public' — that cry is all nonsense — they are built by men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage on the same

today everything is commercialized--politics, religion, education, ideology, belief, the armed services. ...Everything has its price.

They shouldn’t, sir. You sold your souls and you’re going to continue selling them. You can be very moral and righteous in asking me that question sir, but there is not one of you in this room that’s going to turn down any of our money. You’re going to take it. I can only offer it…. We want to put our materials on the bodies of your athletes and the best way to do it is to buy your schools or buy your coach.

No man can make a million dollars honestly.

I want to give businessmen an honorable place but they make crooks out of themselves.

I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to become part of this criminal apparatus in Russia.

Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt.' I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.'

The market has no morality

I think it's a completely good thing to want to do business, to want to make money and be a success in the marketplace, to get the attention of customers. I'm not in the business of pointing fingers or blaming companies, but there is a limit to everything.

Don't kid yourself: The justice system is a business. It's about money.

Bad politics make for bad morals.

I think everything is a motive for money. Every thought, every belief, everything we're taught in school.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Business is business. I don't manufacture cars, but we do manufacture money.

There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt - whether it's in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it. Journalism certainly is up there. Everything is susceptible to it.