Ted Malloch famous quotes

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.
-- Ted Malloch

#Moral #Economic #Sentiments

The laws of economic life are subject to the eternal laws of spiritual capital.
-- Ted Malloch

#Spiritual #Law #Economic

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

#Spiritual #Growth #Entrepreneurship

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

#People #Excellence

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

#Honor #Way #Consequence

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

#Character #Goal #Matter

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

#Adversity #Overcoming #Encounters

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

#Selfish #Goal #Attributes

Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.
-- Ted Malloch

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

#Niche #Found #Valuable

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.
-- Ted Malloch

#Behavior #Utility

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

#Running #Wells

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.
-- Ted Malloch

#Motivation #Competition #Moral

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.
-- Ted Malloch

#Creativity #Community #Three

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

#Fashion #Caring #Biblical

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

#Flower #Self #Discipline

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

#Goal #Sides #Principles

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

#Exercise #Imagination #Goal

The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital.
-- Ted Malloch

#Enemy #Economy #Social

Long-term success depends upon trust.
-- Ted Malloch

#Long #Term #Long Term

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

#Selfish #World #Conflict

There's such a thing as spiritual capital that has economic function and potential.
-- Ted Malloch

#Spiritual #Economic #Function

Business is the real test of the moral life.
-- Ted Malloch

#Real #Tests #Moral

We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.
-- Ted Malloch

#Virtue

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

#Honesty #Long #Excellence

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

#Grateful #Benefits #Needs

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

#Wealth #Creation #Pillaging

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

#Outcomes #Individual #Treatment

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.
-- Ted Malloch

#Spiritual #Smart #Technology