“Business is an aggregate of people and its purpose is to serve people in a profit-making environment. … [B]usiness must be either an ethical or unethical institution, it cannot be neutral.”
— Jan Erteszek, 1985
Read More“The purpose of this book, hopefully, is to develop a clear statement in a language understandable to the mass of the American people of what modern business really is, what most people think it is, and what at best it could become.”
— Jan Erteszek, 1986. Introductory copy for an unpublished book.
Read More“Although I have been for years a conservative Republican both by instinct and philosophical persuasion, I do not share the views of some of my fellow conservatives that unemployment is necessary price to pay for the revival of our economy, or that it is indispensable to this revival.”
— Jan J. Erteszek, Los Angeles Times, November 29, 1982
Read More“PEOPLE COME FIRST … rooted in our belief in human dignity and the conviction that the success of the company depends upon each one of its members.”
Read More“Because of man’s need for belonging, for sharing, he has created “common venture” institutions. . . . Men who share and belong do not destroy each other.”
— Jan J. Erteszek, circa 1975
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