Quotes About Integrity

I don't go to events to have my picture taken. I don't really care if my name is mentioned on a blog. It's not my thing.

I was blessed to have the guys at Bear Stearns as mentors. They taught me a lot, but most of all, they taught me that there's nothing wrong with selling if you're selling the right product to the right person.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

I don't want a mercenary management team.

I wasn't going to sell out on top, if I was going to be in the main event with somebody I wasn't going to sell out an 80,000 seat arena, I wasn't going to sell a lot of merchandise. I wasn't that guy that you were going to put as the face of your company.

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

I abhor mere prettiness.

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

Just wearing expensive and glamorous clothes do not merit for me to do a film. There has to be a good story and a good role.

You don't need sex and controversy when your film has merit.

I've always felt all the jobs I've ever got are on merit.

I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I'll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.

At the end of the day all I've ever asked for is to be allowed to succeed and fail on my own merits. Not based on what somebody else wants me to do or thinks I should do. Or, what they want me to say or what they think I should say.

Clean up your own mess.

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.

I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.

I can't stand those shows that come in and make things over and leave the homeowner with a mess to fix afterwards. Not my style!

I get the most girls, but I'm not the type that actually likes to mess around.

When you mess up, teams wonder whether they want to put their hands on you. I respect that. They can only go by a rap sheet or a resume.

I have done good work in television and wouldn't want to mess it with a wrong move.

To President Biden's credit, I mean, he kind of - he says, if you mess up, fess up. And if you, you know, don't have the answer, don't make it up. And I follow that.