In today's world, and not just when dealing with business, it would seem that one of the premises that must prevail is "the end justifies the means". This affirmation has been falsely attributed to Niccolo Machiavelli -even though he never wrote it and apparently never said it− given that in his book The Prince, Machiavelli expresses the idea that when men hold power, they should be judged by the results they obtain and if in the end the desired results are indeed achieved, the means employed to do so would have to be pardoned.
En el mundo actual, y no solo cuando de los negocios se trata, pareciese que una de las premisas que debe imperar es "el fin justifica los medios", frase que se ha atribuido a Nicolás Maquiavelo -a pesar de nunca haberla escrito y, al parecer, tampoco haberla pronunciado− dado que en su libro El Príncipe, Maquiavelo expone la idea de que los hombres, estando en el poder, deberían ser juzgados por los resultados obtenidos, y si al final los resultados deseados se logran, los medios utilizados para alcanzarlos tendrían que ser perdonados.