Quotes About Morality

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Being a good human being is good business.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

You can't regulate a soul into a business.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.

Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.

How we do anything, means everything.

I preume there are far too many abortions performed in this country. And I also believe that at the end of the day, as much as I might disapprove, none of them are really any of my business.

I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.

Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.

If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.