Business Integrity Quotes

A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

My father said, 'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals'.

I don't know how to sell out. If I tried to sell out I don't think I could.

Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked.... There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to...engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

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.

We mean to make little business big, and all business honest, instead of striving to make Big Business little, and yet letting it remain dishonest.

One must never compromise on finances and confuse personal friendships with professional charges.

Maintaining the trust of the consumer is critical to our business

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

We have never worried about numbers. In the marketplace, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a difference. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

Though negotiations are a rough game, you should never allow them to become a dirty game. Once you've agreed to a deal, don't back out of it unless the other party fails to deliver as promised. Your handshake is your bond. As far as I'm concerned, a handshake is worth more than a signed contract. As an entrepreneur, a reputation for integrity is your most valuable commodity. If you try to put something over on someone, it will come back to haunt you.

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

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

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

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.

Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.

You only have one thing in business, and that is your reputation

In the business world, we can point to instances when a lack of integrity has bankrupted entire companies - in sectors as different as finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and energy.

When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is 'unprofessional,' the athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.

Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.