Quotes About Ethos

Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does...

Our ethos is all that we currently hold to be true. It is what we act upon. It governs our manners, our business, and our politics.

These things I'd learned when I was young: Life is short and men are cruel, and ponies are born to suffer. I decided that I would work as hard as I could at whatever job I was given, believing that I would earn my reward in the end and live forever in the ponies' place.

A lot of youngsters in the game think they've made it before they've done anything. But at United, they're given that winning mentality and an ethos of always trying to improve.

True success in the N.B.A., you must have consistency of culture.

The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral.

The "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.

I had seen the ethos of rugby, and I was very much an admirer. For us, it's a beautiful sport, what I guess what Pele called soccer in Brazil. It's so simple; it's easy to understand. You can play five on five or 15 on 15.

We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated.

Right now, the triumph of market logic, with its ethos of domination and fierce competition, is paralyzing almost all serious efforts to respond to climate change.

I have the old-school mentality.

The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

I don't want a mercenary management team.

To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.

That in the end, beauty does not matter. Character is more important.

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

Karma's not like a bank. Make a deposit, take a withdrawal.

Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.

Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.