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quotes[0]='At this moment, Americas highest economic need is higher ethical standards. Standards enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders. <p &nbsp;</p><i>George W. Bush, current President of the USA, corporate responsibility speech - July 9, 2002</i>'

quotes[1]='To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Confucius 551BC - 479BC, Chinese philosopher, The Analects, Book II, Chapter XXIV</i>'

quotes[2]='Corporation, n., An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American columnist, The Devils Dictionary 1906</i>'

quotes[3]='A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Henry Ford 1863 – 1947, American industrialist</i>'

quotes[4]='Every individual endeavors to employ his capital so that its produce may be of greatest value. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own security, only his own gain. And he is in this led by an invisible hand to promote an end, which has no part of his intention. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Adam Smith 1723-1790, Scottish philosopher and economist in: The Wealth of Nations, 1776</i>'

quotes[5]='Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Isaac Asimow 1920 - 1992, Russian writer and scientist</i>'

quotes[6]='The modern conservative is engaged in one of mans oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. <p &nbsp;</p><i>John Kenneth Galbraith 1908-, American (Canadian-born) economist</i>'

quotes[7]='The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Noel Coward 1899-1973, English actor, dramatist, & songwriter</i>'

quotes[8]='A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Henry Ford 1863 – 1947, American industrialist</i>'

quotes[9]='One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French novelist</i>'

quotes[10]='No moral system can rest solely on authority. <p &nbsp;</p><i>A.J. Ayer 1910-1989, British philosopher</i>'

quotes[11]='The market has no morality. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Michael Heseltine 1933-, British conservative politician</i>'

quotes[12]='We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British philosopher and mathematician</i>'

quotes[13]='What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947, British philosopher and mathematician</i>'

quotes[14]='Food comes first, then morals. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956, German dramatist</i>'

quotes[15]='Ethics is not an ideal system which is all very noble but no good in practice. The reverse of this is closer to the truth: an ethical judgement that is no good in practice must suffer from a theoretical defect as well, for the whole point of ethical judgement is to guide practice. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Peter Singer 1946-, Australian utilitarian philosopher</i>'

quotes[16]='We may pretend that we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Terry Hands 1941-, British theatre and opera director </i>'

quotes[17]='About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961,American writer of novels and short stories</i>'

quotes[18]='Moral choices do not depend on personal preferences and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Basel Hume 1923-1999, British Archbishop</i>'

quotes[19]='Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Robert H. Jackson 1892-1954, Chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials</i>'

quotes[20]='There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind - you have to adhere to the highest standards. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Marvin Bower, former managing partner of McKinsey & Company </i>'

quotes[21]='If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Robert Noyce, inventor of the silicon chip </i>'

quotes[22]='Whatever you are, be a good one. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865, sixteenth President of the United States </i>'

quotes[23]='A man`s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Albert Einstein 1879-1955; German-born American theoretical physicist </i>'

quotes[24]='Relativity applies to physics, not ethics. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Albert Einstein 1879-1955; German-born American theoretical physicist </i>'

quotes[25]='I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty. <p &nbsp;</p><i>John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1839-1937, American entrepreneur </i>'

quotes[26]='Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Valdemar W. Setzer, Brasilian antropologist </i>'

quotes[27]='There are truths on this side of the Pyrenées which are falsehoods on the other. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Michel de Montaigne 1533-1592, French essayist </i>'

quotes[28]='It is not that humans have become more greedy than in generations past; It is that the avenues to express greed have grown so enormously. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Alan Greenspan, to the Senate Banking Committee, 2002 </i>'

quotes[29]='The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Chester Barnard in The Functions of the Executive (1938) </i>'

quotes[30]='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. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Irving L. Janis, behavioral scientist, in Groupthink: The Desperate Drive for Consensus at Any Cost (1971) </i>'

quotes[31]='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 the purposes of business. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn in The Social Psychology of Organizations (1966) </i>'

quotes[32]='Never take anybody`s advice. <p &nbsp;</p><i>G.B. Shaw 1856-1950, Irish critic and poet </i>'

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