Quotes About Ethos

Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.

I believe in good, honest food. That's always been my ethos.

I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in.

My thing ever since I came in the NBA is making sure it's not about how much money I make, but instead it being about the love of the game.

There's a lot of politics in football, and sometimes the real values of the sport, those human values, get lost.

My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion.

There are values far beyond those of contracts, markets and exchange

Many years ago, there used to be something called 'conflict of interest.' No longer, I'm afraid. Today, we all bathe in the same river.

Quizá el sentido de la moral es la triste compensación que aprendemos a valorar como premio por la buena conducta.

No, Lin! This is India. Nobody can take his clothes off, not even to wash his bodies. This is India. Nobody is ever naked in India. And especially, nobody is naked without clothes.

It doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. It doesn't even matter what you are. It's what you try to be that counts.

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.

Culture' and 'cult' derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it.

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead.

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise - that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.

Go ask Tom Brady if I ever cheated when I sacked him. I'm not a cheater. That's not on my record, that's not on my resume.

The ends do not justify the means

I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos.

A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos together.

The word daddy hung in the air outlined in gold. Closing my eyes, I found it in blue on my eyelids. I could feel the roots my daddy had grown in me—actual branches in my body. His was the ethos of country folk: people who kept raked dirt yards rather than grassy lawns because growing grass was too much like field work; people who kept the icebox on the porch, plugged in with an extension cord run through a window, so folks driving by would know they had one.

What I mean by spirituality is not theology, but attitude.