Chip Pitts quotes

Genuine leadership is inherently moral.
-- Chip Pitts

#Moral

The October Crisis was not just a crisis of the financial sector, but one arising from an ill-informed and erroneous mindset that still infects businesses in general and requires correction.
-- Chip Pitts

#October #Financial #Mindset

One fascinating development in recent years is how large companies like Wal-Mart or the major apparel brands are dramatically influencing behavior throughout their supply chains by requiring CSR compliance as a condition of being a supplier.
-- Chip Pitts

#Influence #Behavior

Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.
-- Chip Pitts

#Moral #Human Rights #Sustainability

The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only social responsibility of business is to make a profit for its shareholders," and until that socially and economically counterproductive - and empirically, legally and ethically inaccurate - view is corrected, we will continue to have the increasing and more intense crises of global capitalism that we have seen recur with ever greater frequency over the past forty years. Sadly but clearly, the lessons have still not been learned.
-- Chip Pitts

#Responsibility #Past #October

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.