Ted Malloch Quotes

Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.

When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.

Business is the real test of the moral life.

Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.

Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.

Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.

Caring for God's endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience.

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals.

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

When all benefits are promised by the state, nobody need feel grateful for them.

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.

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.

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.

One runs a business ultimately to do well so you can do good for everyone.

Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.

Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing.

Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.

An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members.

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.

Long-term success depends upon trust.

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.