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Long-term success depends upon trust.
Business is the real test of the moral life.
We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.
Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.
Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.
The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.
Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.
The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital.
One runs a business ultimately to do well so you can do good for everyone.
Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.
An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members.
Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.
The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital.
Caring for God's endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience.
When all benefits are promised by the state, nobody need feel grateful for them.
Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.
Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.
There's such a thing as spiritual capital that has economic function and potential.
Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals.
The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.
Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.
Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.
Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.
When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.
Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.
Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing.
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.
In the new conditions created by the global economy, the information revolution and the growth of smart technologies, it is more necessary than ever for all companies to be guided by their rich spiritual inheritance, as spiritual enterprises.
Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the "impartial spectator" which is forced on us by our moral nature.