Can such a code really take hold in the competitive world of business?  Perhaps the best hope for its success can be glimpsed in a comment made to a New York Times reporter by Max Anderson, one of the pledge’s student organizers: “There is the feeling that we want our lives to mean something more and to run organizations for the greater good,” he said.  If enough business people would conceive their interests in those terms, we might see the emergence of an ethically-based profession of business managers.
Quizá el comentario que hizo Max Anderson, uno de los organizadores del juramento de los estudiantes, al New York Times refleje mejor la esperanza de que tenga éxito: “Existe el sentimiento de querer dar a nuestras vidas un significado y de dirigir organizaciones por el bien común".