Quotes About Integrity

So first find a low-cost fund whose managers are major shareholders, dare to be different, don't hype their returns, and have shown a willingness to shut down before they get too big for their britches. Then, and only then, consult their Morningstar rating.10

Buying a bond only for its yield is like getting married only for the sex. If the thing that attracted you in the first place dries up, you'll find yourself asking, "What else is there?" When the answer is "Nothing," spouses and bondholders alike end up with broken hearts.

Do not let anyone else run your business, unless (1) you can supervise his performance with adequate care and comprehension or (2) you have unusually strong reasons for placing implicit confidence in his integrity and ability.

He also wants to see managers who set and meet realistic goals; build their businesses from within rather than through acquisition; allocate capital wisely; and do not pay themselves hundred-million-dollar jackpots of stock options.

I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she is my only leader.

It takes a weak man to prove his strength by striking a woman.

Who do you serve?" Lanferelle asked. "Sir John Cornerwailled," Hook said proudly. Lanferelle was pleased. "Sir John! Ah, there's a man. His mother must have slept with a Frenchman.

I put my hands over Saint Cuthbert's fingers and I could feel the big ruby ring under my own fingers, and I gave the jewel a twitch just to see whether the stone was loose and would come free, but it seemed well fixed in its setting. I swear to be your man, I said to the corpse, and to serve you faithfully. I tried to shift the ring again, but the dead fingers were stiff and the ruby did not move.

If an oath is a mistake then you are still obligated because you are sworn to it.

Am I to deny Mark justice because he is old and gross and ugly? Do youth and beauty deserve perverted justice? What have I fought for all these years, if not to make certain that justice is even-handed?

O orgulho faz o homem, impulsiona-o, é a parede de escudos ao redor de sua reputação, e os dinamarqueses entendiam isso. Os homens morrem, diziam eles, mas a reputação não.

Some oaths are made with love, and those we cannot break.

Nós queremos a fidelidade nas pessoas que amamos, senhora, então não é óbvio que elas a queiram em nós? A fidelidade é um presente que oferecemos aos que amamos.

A man without honour has no reputation

Se gli uomini possono comprare la legge, diceva sempre Artù, allora la legge diventa inutile.

certainly strip him of his petty

I can unbutton your breeches and I can point you down wind, but even with the Good Lord's help I can't piss for you.

If the leader is a good man he will be liked and if he's not, he won't, and if he is a good man and a bad leader then he is better off dead.

I paid him, Lawford said indignantly. If you want a job done properly, Sharpe said, you do it yourself. Hell!

If you never write anything down then no one knows exactly what you said so you can always change it.

He'll fight like a bull,' I said, 'and he's honest. But does he think like a wildcat?

My sword, I told him, says I tell the truth, and that you are a stinking bag of wind, a liar from hell, a cheat and a perjurer who deserves death. Up to our arses again, Leofric said.

That was why he was thinking about vultures. He was thinking that he wanted to run, but that he did not want to feed the vultures. Do not get caught. Rule number one in the army, and the only rule that mattered. Because if you got caught the bastards would flog you to death or else reorganize your ribs with musket balls, and either way the vultures got fat.

You're a boy playing in men's games, Sharpie, and you're going to lose unless you're a man. Are you man enough to fight me here? Put me down? Claim I was kicked by a horse in the night? You can try, Sharpie, but you're not man enough, are you?