Quotes About Principles

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.

Sometimes the best way to learn is to return to the fundamentals.

...the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

Hire character. Train skill.

It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.

Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.

If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself.

No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

Do business with honesty irrespective of what happens, whatever happens thereafter is correct. But do not start any accounts (karma).

The bottom-line is, that nothing should affect your bottom-line.