Quotes About Values

To be useful to society" is the ambition, or excuse, of a prostitute.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Money is the greatest concern for small characters, but is nothing but the smallest for great characters.

I want to issue a call to everyone in the world who believes in the values of tolerance, freedom, democracy, humanism, to all those who are persecuted by tyranny, by dictatorships.

When your life is possession-centered, the important thing is what you have; when it is principle-centered, the important thing is who and what you are.

Instead of looking to increase our pleasure in life, they think, we should try to become better people and do the right thing. That is what makes a life go well.

Free speech is one of the core values in a democracy and it should be championed with a vengeance.

Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views

Seek ye not riches, seek but the society of good men.

income, income is what these patriots want! Mother, father, God—they'll sell them all for money, the ambitious Judases! It's all ambition,

They say the most intelligent people pay more attention when buying their boots than when choosing a lifelong companion.

I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

Not all companies have a Purpose—but enduringly successful ones do. Purpose

The modern world may not know how to phrase the question, but it wants its own realistic recipe for Purpose. Competition has done us a lot of good in the last half-century, but one question remains inadequately addressed: "What are we competing for?

If a company's reputation-building efforts appear to be somehow separate from its business model, then you suspect they are primarily a corrective to its naturally amoral or immoral inclinations—a medicine to relieve the symptoms but not a cure for the basic disease.

competition between companies is at least in part a competition between different moral ideas.

Niall Fitzgerald, former chairman of Unilever, has pointed out that social responsibility is good business because "we need a constant flow of talented people Ã¢â'¬Â¦ [who] ask themselves if this is an organization whose values they share."6

Ethics are more important than ever before to a company's reputation with customers, investors, potential recruits and indeed its own staff. And

A worthy man is not always a holy man.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty... and how few by dishonesty.