Quotes About Values

In our family business, the Edelman children must earn their way - there were and will be no promises without performance and leadership. That may lead to some skinned knees, but it is certainly the best way to learn life lessons.

I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.

The Americans' position is clear: we promote democracy.

There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.

Our job as a business is not to promote a political agenda. That's not what we do.

Once enough Americans reacquaint themselves with Americanism, we should promote it to all countries just as the Left promotes leftism and Muslims promote Islam. One need not be American to affirm Americanism.

I believe in the traditional American family, and I will do everything that I can to promote, you know, families.

We're a really close family, and that was what my grandparents promoted.

In whatever number of years I have on Earth, I think that promoting the values of free expression, the openness of the Internet, that's the best use of my time.

For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.

I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.

You have to put money in its proper perspective. The way it is positioned in the culture is like it is the most important thing. But something is missing.

My family is really proper.

I was raised in a conservative Christian household. We weren't even allowed to watch 'secular' television, anything that was deemed not proper for Christians.

There are major CEOs who do not know how to hold a knife and fork properly, but I don't worry about that as much as the lack of kindness.

I don't think I can live a life of compromise. If I did, I wouldn't be able to sleep properly.

Our private property must be sacrificed.

People are more important than property.

In all seriousness, I don't get people who need to make a proposal a bigger deal than marriage already is.

It's all about culture. If you can get the right people with the right mindset, the right core values and the ability to change on a dime, then you have the ability to invest and do what's best for the health and long-term value proposition of the business.

The desire to keep television out of our son's life was one of the few parenting priorities my husband and I agreed on from the beginning. We debated the pros and cons of co-sleeping, of pacifiers, of chemical-free crib mattresses and baby sign language. The television question, on the other hand, was a no-brainer.

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and prosperity we hold sacred in this nation.