Quotes About Values

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.

You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.

The place I am always looking for - because in order to keep the business, I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values - is the place where I make something that could almost - but not quite - be understood by everyone.

I make all my advertising decisions based on what is best for my customers and my employees.

I am a pro-gay marriage conservative. And I'm pretty damn confident in my sexuality.

India's connection with philanthropy didn't begin with western influences. The connection with philanthropy is age-old and ingrained in our value systems.

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

Let's face it: grandparents are very important to family systems. You're babysitters, but you also instill values in children that sometimes skip a generation.

Social systems have values - arguments baked into their design. For example, Twitter's core argument seems to be, 'Everything should be public, and messages should find the largest audience possible.' Snapchat's might be, 'Communication should be private and ephemeral.'

We can affirm our values as a country and have immigration systems that support our economy, that grow our country, and that make sure that we stay secure and strong.

Truth be told, relying on 'one country, two systems' to preserve our values is a lost cause.

Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God.

My mother always cooked, every day, proper food. We didn't have fast food. It was probably pretty much meat and two veg, but as time went on and new things came into the culture, she embraced all of that. I grew up with mealtimes and sitting around the table with proper cooking and eating.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.

You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.

There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

I couldn't care less about league tables. I'm more interested in kitchen tables and conference room tables.

I think people used to read 'War and Peace,' and now they don't; now they sit around with their tablets and watch 'Downton Abbey' and 'Breaking Bad' or whatever, and they want the things that they watch to be better so that they can feel better about themselves for watching it.

I consider myself allergic to gossip and tabloids, and go out of my way to avoid them.

I don't earn my money from trying to hurt people or get in the tabloids.

There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.