Quotes About Integrity

Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down.

So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why there is so much intensity.

Swer guotes wibes liebe hat Der schamt sich ieder missetat.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)

What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you will do things differently.

In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity, because if they don't have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you.

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER

I'm not trying to suggest that I was wrongly convicted by corrupt police officers. Simply that I was rightfully convicted by corrupt police officers.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. —Albert Einstein

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would have been no good reason to make or release a Nebraska. The album made it impossible to use the word "sellout.