NOTABLE QUOTES ON BUSINESS AND ETHICS
“Each generation wastes a little more
Of the future with greed and lust for riches…” Don Marquis,
1950.
“Years ago William Jennings Bryan once described big business as
“nothing but a collection of organized appetites.””
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1986.
“The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must
be held to strict compliance with the will of the people.” Theodore
Roosevelt, 1900.
“We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return
we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors
to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal.” Theodore
Roosevelt, 1913
“Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.”
Andrew Young
“Corporation, n., An ingenious device for obtaining profit without
individual responsibility.” Ambrose Bierce, 1906.
“I have always recognized that the object of business is to make
money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object
of life is to do good.” Peter Cooper, 1874.
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