Quotes About Ethos

The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

We are bodies which think, and we're at home with steampunk because it is an ethos of design and creativity which acknowledges the humanly physical: that which we can understand with our fingers.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.

Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.

I wouldn't dignify it with the name immoral.

I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.

The end doesn't justify the means.

What we live by we die by.

Just because something is legal doesn't always make it right.

Is the any model like morality?

The motto of Groton—cui servire est regnare, "to serve is to rule"—was part of his and Roosevelt's DNA. On

Culture is action, not words.

Companies love to declare "We're all family here." No, you're not.

Culture is the byproduct of consistent behavior. If you encourage people to share, then sharing will be built into your culture. If you reward trust, then trust will be built in. If you treat customers right, then treating customers right becomes your culture.

The best cultures derive from actions people actually take, not the ones they write about in a mission statement.

A few bucks isn't going to make up for selling food we can't be proud of.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

He could not be a breaker, it was against his bent.

What is immoral to do is immoral to threaten.

Weakness of attitude become weakness of character.