Quotes About Values

If we want to build great products, we need great people. If we want to attract and keep great people, we need great principles.

Strong cultures are to organizations what breathing life-giving oxygen is to the body, while weak ones are like poisonous carbon monoxide. Don't ignore the cultural health of the business.

Surround yourself with the right people and you'll have the right culture.

Now and forever, culture is only as strong or weak as the employees that make up the organization.

Culture change starts on the inside.

Love your brand. Commit to growing with a company that has value orientation aligned with yours.

Business leaders should seek out intrinsically oriented individuals whose core values are aligned with those of the company. As it stands, asking a potential new hire how a particular job could be a vehicle for expanding his or her character strengths and intrinsic growth opportunities is a very different conversation from the one typically carried on during the job interview process. Some

People may not always live what they profess, but they will always live what they believe.

Poor people have big TV. Rich people have big library.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Showing Respect Is not Slavery...and Must Be Taught

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

A budget is a moral document.

bought into Milton Friedman's 1970 New York Times essay "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.