Quotes About Integrity

identity compromises (relationships) may result...

you can be unethical and still be legal.

By passing your GCSEs you prove that you're not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you're smart

My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form.

If we acted, nobody would thank us. But if we did not act, who would? Making politically unpopular decisions for the long-run benefit of the country is the reason the Fed exists as a politically independent central bank. It was created for precisely this purpose: to do what must be done—what others cannot or will not do.

But I quickly learned that, in both the public and private spheres, how you lead is as important as what you know.

Fuld's commitment to his firm was evident in every discussion or encounter I had with him.

some products should just be kept out of the marketplace.

If he follows through, the

Assuming that my words would be taken at face value was my first mistake.

but sometimes it seemed that she put the fund ahead of the interests of the broader financial system.)

In choosing Tim, the president-elect showed that he was willing to take some political heat to get the adviser he wanted.

without appearing to be partisan.

The idea was watch what I do, not what I say.

Ronald Reagan was not a god. He himself would have said that. Don't follow people. Follow principle.

Don't follow people. Follow principle.

Hypocrisy as humor pushes destruction of standards.

When facts become secondary to emotion, truth dies. And a society that doesn't value truth cannot survive.

So she called in. After first convincing several producers that she was, in fact, Soledad Ramirez, and had no intention of screaming "bababooey" live on air, they let

But you don't have to hate it. In fact, it can be an absolute blast. The moment you don't give a damn what they say about you because you realize they're lying is the moment you have the upper hand.

There was no question about that. Bullies can't deal with those who stand up to them.

point out that throwing around accusations without evidence makes your opponent a piece of garbage

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

Testing of the spirits, then, amounts to critically evaluating the utterances of various human spirits to see if they are prompted by the Holy Spirit or by some other spirit.