34 quotes
Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.
Doing Virtuous Business (2011)
Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.
Doing Virtuous Business (2011)
Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.
Doing Virtuous Business (2011)
Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals.
Doing Virtuous Business (2011)
And the first question for a leader is: "Who do we intend to be?" not “What are we going to do?”
Doing Virtuous Business (2011)
Courage… is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.
Doing Virtuous Business (2011)
Long-term success depends upon trust.
Doing Virtuous Business (2011)
But we should see gratitude in the whole context of life, and ask ourselves that life is changed and empowered by it.
Doing Virtuous Business (2011)
Myth: There’s conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.
Doing Virtuous Business (2011)
In the new conditions created by the global economy, the information revolution and the growth of smart technologies, it is more necessary than ever for all companies to be guided by their rich spiritual inheritance, as spiritual enterprises.
Doing Virtuous Business (2011)
The humble person who confesses his faults and duly atones for them is the one best equipped to manage defeat, accept his own losses, and to overcome the setbacks that are the routine cost of doing business.
Doing Virtuous Business (2011)
what can only be termed, a self-imposed European death wish.
And with every passing day, we see the further demise of the West, the onslaught of Eurabia (which could not be won at the gates of Vienna in 1683) and the nihilism — of the Last man.
Adam Smith’s image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the “impartial spectator” which is forced on us by our moral nature.
Doing Virtuous Business (2011)