或许人们能从马克思·安德森接受《纽约时报》采访时所说的话中看到一些希望的曙光，作为本次宣誓活动的其中一个学生组织者，他说 ： “ 我们感觉到生活中应该有一些更有意义的事情，并希望能让我们的企业服务于更宏大的社会利益。 ”如有更多商业人士能遵照上述宣言来厘定自身利益的话，那么越来越多以德为纲的职业经理人操守，就将涌现在我们眼前。
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.