Quotes About Integrity

We quickly figured out that some companies actually have a moral compass and some of them don't," said Joe.

It went that way with much of what they needed to buy: some companies sought to exploit the moment; others sought to help. "We quickly figured out that some companies actually have a moral compass and some of them don't," said Joe.

As Kat DeBurgh, head of the Health Officers Association of California, put it, "To do the job of local public-health officer, you basically always need to be willing to lose your job.

the CDC, under Robert Redfield, had been disgraced. It had let itself be used by the Trump administration to lead the United States in a direction opposite to the direction the United States had once led the world.

The RBC trading floor had what the staff liked to refer to as a "no-asshole rule"; if someone came in the door looking for a job and sounding like a typical Wall Street asshole, they wouldn't hire him, no matter how much money he said he could make the firm. There was even an expression used to describe the culture: "RBC nice.

If you're not interested in the thing, and if you're just in it for the money, then you're not really going to have a sense of achievement.

He's sort of a prick in a way, but he's smart and honest and fearless." "Even

Who do you work for? That question haunted salesmen. Whenever a trader screwed a customer and the salesman became upset, the trader would ask the salesman, "Who do you work for anyway?" The message was clear: You work for Salomon Brothers. You work for me. I pay your bonus at the end of the year. So just shut up, you geek.

it was the only time he'd done something just for the money, and that he'd never do something just for the money ever again.

If this story has a soul, it is in the decisions made by its principal characters to resist the temptation of easy money and to pay special attention to the spirit in which they live their working lives. I didn't write about them because they were controversial. I wrote about them because they were admirable.

As my last New Year's resolution, I had stopped selling people things I didn't think they should buy. For Lent, I had given up my New Year's resolution.

Disbelief is easy, Kane. It's faith that takes courage, and character.

you have become all the things you have done and thought, and now can't undo or unthink.

She's got manners, but what has she got in the way of morals?" "Oh," said Luker blithely, "she and I don't have any morals. We have to get along with a scruple or two." "I

We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.

I think I have always had a strong sense of justice, of fair play, of what is right and what is wrong.

Replacing the divot is "an exercise for the public good." It is also a reminder that "we are all one golfer." There would simply be no game if every golfer turned his back on the damage he did.

In a golf club everyone knows the player who does not replace his divot. One can guess how he leads the rest of his life.

What do you hate most? he asks. -A lie. And you? -Ownership, he says. When you leave me, forget me.

And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would. Katherine cliffton The English Patient

The bitterness of Poor Quality remains long after the sweetness of Low Price is Forgotten. From Hemingway Adventure by Michael Palin.

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

You can't regulate integrity