“Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.” – Ambrose Bierce
“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.” – Howard Scott
“Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.” – Ed Mcmahon
“I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven’t had any moral compass, who’ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they’re losers.” – Michael Bloomberg
“Elaborate business structures, even forms of compliance with modern risk management and corporate governance principles, can have the effect of masking or distorting the underlying moral judgements.” – Trevor Manuel
“[The truth is,] we all have done something unethical, … There’s No Such Thing as Business Ethics.” – John C. Maxwell
“I just think that ethics education today is not as successful as it should be. Everyone seems to think they are ethical, but then we see lying, cheating and stealing going on at every level of our business world and it’s spiraling up through society.” – Marc Lampe
“I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.” – Albert Einstein
“If you don’t have integrity, you have nothing. You can’t buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.” – Henry Kravis
“The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing.. the bottom line. That is, maximizing profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.” – David Suzuki
