Quotes on Ethics and Responsibility

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Quotes on Ethics and Responsibility

 

Source:

Enrique Suarez &

www.12manage.com

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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