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Code of Ethics
My business standards shall have in them a note of sympathy for our common humanity. My business dealings, ambitions and
relations shall always cause me to take into consideration my highest duties as a member of society. In every position in
business life, in every responsibility that comes before me, my chief thought shall be to fill that responsibility and discharge
that duty so when I have ended each of them, I shall have lifted the level of human ideals and achievements a little higher
than I found it. In view of this, it is my duty as a Rotarian.
* To consider any vocation worthy and as affording me distinct opportunity to serve society.
* To improve myself, increase my efficiency and enlarge my service, and by doing so attest my faith in the fundamental
principle of Rotary, that he/she profits most who serves the best.
* To realize that I am a business person and ambitious to succeed; but that I am first an ethical person and wish
no success that is not founded on the highest justice and morality.
* To hold that the exchange of my goods, my service and my ideas for profit is legitimate and ethical, provided that
all parties in the exchange are benefited thereby.
* To use my best endeavors to elevate the standards of the vocation in which I am engaged, and so to conduct my affairs
that others in my vocation may find it wise, profitable and conducive to happiness to emulate my example.
* To conduct my business in such a manner that I may give a perfect service equal to or even better than my competitor,
and when in doubt to give added service beyond the strict measure of debt or obligation.
* To understand that one of the greatest assets of a professional or of a business person is his/her friends and that
any advantage gained by reason of friendship is eminently ethical and proper.
* To hold that true friends demand nothing of one another and that any abuse of the confidence of friendship for profit
is foreign to the spirit of Rotary, and in violation of its Code of Ethics.
* To consider no personal success legitimate or ethical which is secured by taking unfair advantage of certain opportunities
in the social order that are absolutely denied others, nor will I take advantage of opportunities to achieve material success
that others will not take because of the questionable morality involved.
* To be not more obligated to a fellow Rotarian than I am to every other person in human society; because the genius
of Rotary is not in its competition, but in its cooperation; for provincialism can never have a place in an institution like
Rotary, and Rotarians assert that Human Rights are not confined to Rotary Clubs, but are as deep and as broad as the race
itself; and for these high purposes does Rotary exist to educate all people and all institutions.
* Finally, believing in the universality of the Golden Rule, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto
you, do ye even so unto them, we contend that Society best holds together when equal opportunity is accorded all persons in
the natural resources of this planet.
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