Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.

I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum.

Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring...

If you can't honor your contract, that's the type of company I don't really want to be associated with.

Danish values are something that I have always adhered to throughout my career in the U.S., and I'm happy to see Better Collective is applying those same values to the betting industry.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.

The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

What if every high-caliber chef told our investors that for every fancy restaurant we build, it would be a requirement to build one in the hood as well?

Even if Pfizer committed itself legally to maintaining some of its research and development in the U.K., its takeover of AstraZeneca would involve dismembering an excellent and strategically important...

As business leaders, we should not choose between profit or good; rather, we must choose to profit from good. And that requires connecting what we do with a purpose beyond profit - a reason to exist...

Going around and spreading rumors about prices for a new property and then jacking up those prices 33% is what many people, including myself, would call a dirty tactic.

My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticize compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and...

My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.

When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some...

Is safety a business imperative? Yes. But is it also the right thing to do? Yes. And it's important for companies to increasingly find that by doing the right thing, they're fulfilling their business...

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

I think the growing interest in stakeholder capitalism stems from companies genuinely invested in doing good for our world, because it's the right thing to do and because businesses who take this...

For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies -...

I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major...

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.

As long as you're a company that makes profits, all's good.