Ted Malloch
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Roosevelt Group, a strategy and thought leadership company.
And the first question for a leader is: "Who do we intend to be?" not “What are we going to do?”
Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.
When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.
When all benefits are promised by the state, nobody need feel grateful for them.
An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members.
Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.
We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.
Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.
Profitability is the consequence of doing business in the right way, to honor God.
Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.
Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing.
Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals.
Business is the real test of the moral life.
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.
There’s such a thing as spiritual capital that has economic function and potential.
The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital.
Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.
But we should see gratitude in the whole context of life, and ask ourselves that life is changed and empowered by it.
The humble person who confesses his faults and duly atones for them is the one best equipped to manage defeat, accept his own losses, and to overcome the setbacks that are the routine cost of doing business.
Faith engenders courage; and also requires it.