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Mailing Address
PO Box 48267
Burien, WA 98166
bwcrotaryclub@bwcrotaryclub.org
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The Four-Way Test
From the earliest days of the organization,
Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their
professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements
of business ethics is The Four-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian
Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take
charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy.
This 24-word test for employees to follow in
their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production,
advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of
the company is credited to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary in 1943,
The Four-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and
published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions:
"Of the things we think, say or do:
- Is it the TRUTH?
- Is it FAIR to all concerned?
- Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER
FRIENDSHIPS?
- Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?"
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