Quotes on Ethics and Responsibility
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A Vision of the future without action is simply a dream. An action without a vision of the future, lacks meaning. A vision of the future with action, can change the world
Enrique Suarez
Albert Einstein used to say "Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value." We in the Western world have valued so much material well-being that we have forgotten about who we really are which has a divine component. In addition, because of this lack of understanding of what a human being is, we interact with others mostly in a transactional as opposed to a relational and transformational ways
Enrique Suarez
People will never remember how much you know but they'll always remember how you made them feel
Enrique Suarez
The way society is organized is due to the actions of people and not to the laws of nature, consequently these actions can change. History shows a tremendous range of possibilities for human patterns of interaction, and it is this diversity of thought and initiatives properly aligned with a common vision of peace, dignity and prosperity that will be the real challenge for meaningful social, economic, political, spiritual and environmental transformation
Enrique Suarez
The key problem in the American business world today is that we've lost sight of what business is all about. We think it's about accumulating financial wealth and shareholder value, but the fundamental purpose of business, going back thousands of years in human experience, is to meet human economic needs by cultivating creative human talent
Portland State University professor Tom Johnson
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
Michel de Montaigne 1533-1592, French essayist
It is a commonplace executive observation that businesses exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is, however, a very limited statement about thepurposes of business
Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn in The Social Psychology of Organizations (1966)
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities
Josiah Charles Stamp 1880-1941, English Economist and President of the Bank of England
We may pretend that we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise
Terry Hands 1941-, British theatre and opera director
The market has no morality
Michael Heseltine 1933-, British conservative politician
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling
Valdemar W. Setzer, Brazilian anthropologist
Being good is good business
Anita Roddick 1942-, British founder of The Body Shop
The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress
Irving L. Janis, behavioral scientist, in Groupthink: The Desperate Drive for Consensus at Any Cost (1971)
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization
Robert Noyce, inventor of the silicon chip
The time is always right to do what is right
Martin Luther King 1929-1968, American leader of civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize winner
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