Quotes About Values

There is a Japanese belief that business is temporal, whereas relationships are eternal.

There's no way to put a dollar value on values. And yes, there will be times when prioritizing values, especially trust, will come at the expense of profits. In the short term, that is. But the money your company makes in any given quarter will never be more valuable than the trust you stand to lose over time.

But let me be clear: What Indiana ultimately showed me is that no one person is in charge of the moral compass of a business. The phone calls and messages from my employees proved that if the leadership won't act, they'll have to face the bayonets poking up from below. Gone are the days when companies can recruit and retain top talent without upholding a commitment to values.

The music we listen to, the books we read, the television programs we watch, all communicate to us a philosophy of life.

I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.

Young girls need to learn that sexiness isin't about being naked.

On ne peut pas tout vivre, alors l'important est de vivre l'essentiel, et chacun de nous a "son essentiel".

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

and in British culture they saw nothing they wished to emulate.

In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.

Tell me what you laught at, and I'll tell you who you are.

I do my intellectual work within myself, and once with other people, it's more or less irrelevant to me that they're intelligent, as long as they are kind, sincere etc."

look you, there are only two classes of men, the magnanimous, and the rest; and I have reached an age when one has to take sides, to decide once and for all whom one is going to like and dislike, to stick to the people one likes, and, to make up for the time one has wasted with the others, never to leave them again as long as one lives.

He who kills a person kills a reasonable creature, but he who kills a good book destroys reason itself

Such sudden respectability for undisciplined self-interest is one of the most surprising developments of the last three decades. It seems to indicate just how confused our society has become.

The best thing in life aren't things.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.

He was also virulently pro-life, and Weather was strongly pro-choice.

I am also aware that ideals are hard to practice, especially when they are new.

I think I'll keep my own opinion out of the 'sale' rack, if it's all the same to you.

allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people. You seem like good people. I can't say that's all that matters to everyone, but it's what matters to me.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.