Best Corporate Responsibility Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Honest accounting is a really important part of corporate responsibility. Let's just be honest and transparent with the numbers. No inflating, no exaggerating, no reconfiguring... Just pure numbers that tell the honest truth about the companies financial reality.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The day the world learns to measure the net worth of an entrepreneur based on their direct involvement in social welfare and not with money, is the day we'll begin to make substantial strides in eradicating poverty and hunger.”

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Book:Ain't Enough to Look Human

Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human

“It’s not sufficient to know that something is wrong. You also have to appreciate why it is wrong, how things might be changed, and then persuade others of the new possibilities.”

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Book:7 Principles for Exceptional Performance: Develop Purpose, Motivation & Leadership Skills

Source: 7 Principles for Exceptional Performance: Develop Purpose, Motivation & Leadership Skills

“If diversity and inclusion initiatives are approached as a form of charity, it will result in some people benefiting at the expense of others. Instead, diversity and inclusion should be approached as a way to expand capacity and as a hedge against risk. If you look at nature, that’s what diversity does… expand capacity and hedge against risk.”

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Book:Business Essentials

Source: Business Essentials

“In regard to the health of planet Earth, business should be a value adder. The sum of global business activity should actually add value to natural ecosystems.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Corporate responsibility is imperative to global prosperity. As companies of all sizes accept responsibility for their impact on the world and interact with the world more caringly, we'll all get to experience a more prosperous world.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The ability to make risk scenario simulations is a profoundly helpful way for company leadership to engage in risk management.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Permaculture economics promotes adaptive, responsive systems, like nature's evolution.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Nature's cyclical processes inspire permaculture economies, eliminating waste and pollution.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“When the principles of permaculture are applied to business on a global scale, business will be a producer of profit for individuals and for the whole earth.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The best supply chain is one that has no beginning and no end; and decentralized points of access and distribution.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Permaculture is an even higher standard than ESG. Whereas ESG is a compartmentalized approach to evaluating businesses, permaculture is a holistic approach to evaluating businesses.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Permaculture economics empowers local resilience, reducing dependence on distant supply chains.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“If a billionaire really starts doing actual humanitarian work in their fullest capacity, they would stop being billionaires.”

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Book:Ain't Enough to Look Human

Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human

“In the Permaculture Economics model, businesses enhance ecosystems, rather than degrading them.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy

Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“The greatest things in civilization were all made possible by the wise stewardship of Capital. And all of the problems of the world have as their root cause a misuse or waste of capital. Therefore the primary concern for every business and every human endeavor, is the wise stewardship of Capital. And this is especially true for every Chief Sustainability Officer.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“While directly serving their customers, companies should indirectly serve the interests of society by taking responsibility for the holistic impact of their activities. Its simply a more broad view of value creation. This is what ESG is all about. With this perspective, the goal is still Profit — Profit for all stakeholders, to varying degrees and in varying capacities of course. This holistic view of profit produces what I call Multiplicative Value Effects, or, win-win scenarios as opposed to win-lose scenarios where the prerequisite of a companies win is a loss for societal stakeholders.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Implementing Green Infrastructure on the company’s properties is one of the simplest ways to improve its ESG performance.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“An organization's financial statement is their ethical statement. This is because what an organization spends their money on defines what's important to them.”

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Book:What the U.S. Healthcare System Doesn't Want You to Know, Why, and How You Can Do Something About It

Source: What the U.S. Healthcare System Doesn't Want You to Know, Why, and How You Can Do Something About It

“But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility - the environment and civil rights, .. As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.”

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Author:Leo Hindery

“I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.”

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Author:George W. Romney

“The corporate scandals are getting bigger and bigger. In a speech on Wall Street, President Bush spoke out on corporate responsibility, and he warned executives not to cook the books. Afterwards, Martha Stewart said the correct term was to saute the books.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.”

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Author:James Cook

“Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic penalize either consumers or stockholders while politicizing the issue of corporate responsibility. Few will be satisfied, and the ineffectual measures will eventually have to be abandoned.”

“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.”

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Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“I think that today, more so than ever, corporate responsibility is the best strategic as well as financial path that most businesses can follow. For most businesses there are both compelling reasons to be responsible and compelling statistics that validate that responsible businesses do better according to traditional financial metrics. Of course, how you define "responsible" is somewhat of a conundrum.”

“It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises”

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Author:Jonathon Porritt

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

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Author:David Suzuki

“Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.”

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Book:The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values

Source: The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values

“Over the past 60 years, marketing has moved from being product-centric (Marketing 1.0) to being consumer-centric (Marketing 2.0). Today we see marketing as transforming once again in response to the new dynamics in the environment. We see companies expanding their focus from products to consumers to humankind issues. Marketing 3.0 is the stage when companies shift from consumer-centricity to human-centricity and where profitability is balanced with corporate responsibility.”

Source: Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit

“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”

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Author:Niall FitzGerald