There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.

There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.

There are no inevitabilities in history