A Level Religious Studies - Business Ethics Quotes Page

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Business Ethics Quotes
“The business of business is business.” Milton Friedman
“Being good is good business.” Anita Roddick
“The market has no morality.” Michael Heseltine
“If ethics are poor at the top, that behaviour is copied down through the organisation.” Robert Noyce
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.” Josiah Charles Stamp
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” Henry Ford
“Globalisation, more than anything else, has reduced the number of extreme poor in India by two hundred million and in China by three hundred million since 1990.” Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty, 2005.
“Globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin American and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.” Anna Lindh
“Globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds’ markets, cultures and traditions. It’s about giving big business access to a global market.” Zac Goldsmith
“Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.” George Robertson
“The only social responsibility of business is to maximize profit.” Milton Friedman
“Globalization destroys human communities and devastates the natural world.” Cobb
“Good ethics is not necessarily good business.” Julian Baggini
Jesus said that accumulation of wealth for its own sake is not intrinsically good
“For the love of money is the root of evil.” 1 Timothy 6:10

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