Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility. . . may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked. . . . There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to. . . engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.