Corporate Social Responsibility Quotes

• Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success

  Bill Ford

  Strong, Responsibility, Creating

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• The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

  Anita Roddick

  Responsibility, Greed, Should

  Anita Roddick, Cheryl Rickman (2005). “The Small Business Start-up Workbook: A step-by-step guide to starting the business you've dreamed of”, p.227, Hachette UK

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• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Business, Integrity, Bad Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

  Tony Blair

  Business, Responsibility, Recognition

  "A cringing appeasement of the rich and the powerful" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2004.

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• We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.

  Richard Branson

  Team, Responsibility, Government

  "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• Corporate Social Responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing us to do it because it is good for our business

  Niall FitzGerald

  Nice, Responsibility, People

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• Ethics is the new competitive environment

  Peter Robinson

  Responsibility, Ethics, Environment

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• To build and sustain brands people love and trust, one must focus-not only on today but also on tomorrow. It's not easy...but balancing the short and long term is key to delivering sustainable, profitable growth-growth that is good for our shareholders but also good for our consumers, our employees, our business partners, the communities where we live and work, and the planet we inhabit

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Responsibility, Keys, Long

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• There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

  Milton Friedman

  Business, Responsibility, Games

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.133, University of Chicago Press

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• The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

  Milton Friedman

  Responsibility, Social, Profit

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

  Milton Friedman

  Games, Long, Competition

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.133, University of Chicago Press

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• In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

  James C. Collins

  Business, Responsibility, Blood

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• As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.

  Robert Reich

  Business, Responsibility, Lines

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• I have requested the corporates to evolve plans under corporate social responsibility to build clean toilets specially for girl students in schools. India should learn from foreign countries, where people are disciplined and do not litter in public places.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Country, School

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• The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

  David Suzuki

  Responsibility, Reality, Social

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• Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodeled to be market-friendly. So now the United States is fighting wars to instal democracies. First it was topple them, now it's instal them, right? And this whole rise of corporate-funded NGOs in the modern world, this notion of CSR, corporate social responsibility - it's all part of a New Managed Democracy. In that sense, it's all part of the same machine.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Taken, Responsibility

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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