Quotes About Ethos

I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

When we're talking about brand, we're talking about what does the brand stand for. And when we're talking about approval, we're talking about whether or not I approve of what the brand stands for.

If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.

Ä°yi bir iÅŸin nitelikleriyle iyi bir karakterin nitelikleri art?k örtüÅŸmüyordu.

Do You Have a PROBLEM? Nothing is illegal—it isn't what you do; it's the way that you do it.

What we live by we die by.

Not everything was legal, but nothing was immoral, and that was my guide these days.

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good. L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz, 1910

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.

Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.

And at the time it had not been the flames against which they fought, but against human relationships, against loves and hatreds, against reason, against property. At the time, like the crew of a wrecked ship, they had found themselves in a situation where it was permissible to kill one person in order that another might live.

It is impossible to organise an army solely by coercion. At least some of the commanders and soldiers must truly believe in something, be it God, honour, motherland, manhood or money.

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.

Being good is good business

Leadership is all about right and wrong.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.

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

Which was he, then, savage or gentleman?

Tell yourself what you want to be, then act your part accordingly.

MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.