Quotes About Ethos

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but I was passionate about customer service.

Because you have a weakness for beautiful thing and I don't" I say with an air of superiority "They would lure you into their Capitol ways and you'd be lost entirely." "Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness,

If the Student thinks he is the Spirit, he will be a better Student. If the Lawyer thinks he is the Spirit, he will be a better Lawyer, and so on.

perhaps morally broken and socially stigmatized

Stay human, take as much as you can, under the condition that you give more than you take.

In general, skin in the game comes with conflict of interest.

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.

It's a shame to mix sports and politics.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

The problem is we need much more moral content.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

We should actively be thinking about what our inventions would look like if exploited by someone with a less of a moral compass and decide if the world would really be better off with them in it.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

There's no such thing as morality.

Markets need morals.

The most important thing is culture.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.

Even today, the memory of Ribbon Creek influences the way new recruits are handled—not with kid gloves, but with respect for their safety and dignity. This too is part of the Marine ethos: to take care of their brother and sister Marines.

the dogma of hard work—which is deeply embedded in contemporary notions of what it means to be American—is what keeps us toiling and keeps us happy to be exploited in this way.

Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar.

se rejoue, à travers tous ces conflits, ce que Warburg nommera le Nachleben, la "survivance" d'une instabilité déjà centrale à la culture classique elle-même et que Nietzsche, dans La Naissance de la tragédie, avait déjà bien repérée : c'est le conflit de l'"éthos apollinien" et du "pathos dionysiaque". "Le Quattrocento, conclut Warburg, savait apprécier cette double richesse de l'Antiquité païenne.