Quotes About Conduct

Our sphere of influence should reflect righteousness

So unsirious work... I behave nice because I want people to behave in the same way with me.

Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe.

I first came to Abbey Road Studios in 1994. I scored 'Little Women' there. What I remember most about it was how hard it was to come to London from Los Angeles and conduct when you're jetlagged.

You see stuff that is cheating, no question, and it needs to be sorted out. The biggest thing is moving on the shot by an opponent.

Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon, nor shall I ask that anything be done to advance the social status of the colored man, except to give him a fair chance to develop what there is good in him, give him access to the schools, and when he travels let him feel assured that his conduct will regulate the treatment and fare he will receive.

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.

A person who has no need of character is called characterless.

Character is what you are when no one is looking.

ÄŒlovÄ›k by se mÄ›l chovat tak, jak si myslí, že by se mÄ›li chovat vÅ¡ichni.

Smith strongly emphasizes that it is a fallacy to believe that our original moral perceptions of conduct are based on reason, even in those cases where general rules grow directly out of our experience and become an emergent order. These perceptions and the experience on which rules are founded are a consequence of our minds but not of reasoned thoughts:

human character is unchanging and thus its conduct in calamitous times is always predictable.

We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.

How we do anything, means everything.

I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.