I do not believe for a second that you can be a bad person—a dishonest or cruel person—and have true success. The kind of so-called success achieved this way cannot give you peace and contentment. This kind of success is temporal at best. A business slogan I really like is, “Do the right things and do them right.” I firmly believe that honesty and integrity are the foundation for any type of success—honesty with others and, more important, honesty with oneself.
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| — | J. Barry Griswell, former chairman and CEO of the Principal Financial Group, and 2003 recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, in The Adversity Paradox, p 50-1 |
