Lee R. Raymond Quotes

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• We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of…
• The competitive instinct is what I think drives organizations and people to become better and better. It can promote change toward progress and development, which…
• Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.
• Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.
• He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its…
• 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…
• I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should…
• In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system,…
• It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.
• It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such…
• It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.
• The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.
• The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.
• 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…
• 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…
• There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.
• 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…
• Competition can be viewed in two ways. It can be viewed in a negative light and be seen as destructive, but one can also have…
• A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we…
• 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…

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