Integrity and honesty are at the heart of our business. We expect our people to maintain high ethical standards in everything they do, both for the firm and in their personal lives.
Goldman Sachs Annual Report 1999
One must remember that every time a national corporation takes a step which is, or appears to be, against the public interest, it reacts on all corporations and is detrimental to our whole system of private enterprise.
Sidney Weinberg, Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 1930 to 1969
(thanks to James Kristie’s “Boards at Their Best” Blog
