Ted Malloch
Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.Collection: Wealth
When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.Collection: People
Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.Collection: Behavior
Business is the real test of the moral life.Collection: Real
Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.Collection: Spiritual
Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.Collection: Selfish
Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.Collection: Character
The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital.Collection: Spiritual
Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.Collection: Honor
The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.Collection: Moral
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.Collection: Adversity
Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing.Collection: Niche
One runs a business ultimately to do well so you can do good for everyone.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Motivation
Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.Collection: Creativity
Caring for God's endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience.Collection: Fashion
Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.Collection: Goal
An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members.Collection: Exercise
The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital.Collection: Enemy
Long-term success depends upon trust.Collection: Long
Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.Collection: Selfish
There's such a thing as spiritual capital that has economic function and potential.Collection: Spiritual
We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.Collection: Virtue
The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.Collection: Honesty
When all benefits are promised by the state, nobody need feel grateful for them.Collection: Grateful
Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals.Collection: Outcomes
Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.Collection: Flower
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.Collection: Spiritual