One runs a business ultimately to do well so you can do good for everyone.
Quotes from Doing Virtuous Business — Ted Malloch
born 1952 United States
32 quotes
When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.
The business virtue par excellence is honesty—without it markets can’t long survive.
Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.
When all benefits are promised by the state, nobody need feel grateful for them.
Caring for God’s endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience.
The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital.
Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.
The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.
Business is the real test of the moral life.
We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.
Profit doesn’t appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.
Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.
There’s such a thing as spiritual capital that has economic function and potential.
Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.
Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.
An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members.
The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ted Malloch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.