What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. . . In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Early in the century it was not considered justifiable to create corporations for any purpose not clearly public in nature. We are not in business to make maximum profit for our shareholders.
Profit is our reward for doing it well.
If business does not serve society, society will not long tolerate our profits or even our existence. We have six stakeholders we have to serve. The investor is one - very important one. But we also have employees, and we have customers, we have suppliers, and we have government and society. And we have to try and deal with all of those and not just one.