Quotes About Values

I'm a businessman. I never knew anything about politics. I know what's right, what's wrong and what's working.

All businessmen are scum.

I was never money conscious. I would never have succeeded if I thought I was going to be a millionaire.

Succeeding in business is not just about making money.

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

Money is not a measure of a man's character or success in the arena of public service.

If I ever had to choose between having a good mind and good health with having big success, then there's no contest: I'd put my health first every time.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach.

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

Success is measured differently by different people.

Success is self-defined. You can choose what you think success is, and you can always change your mind.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

At City, we don't just have successful people: we have great human beings who know that family is paramount.

The Congressional Prayer Caucus has worked successfully to advocate for and protect values that are fundamental to the fabric of our nation, and I'm honored to serve as co-chairman.

We all have to believe in something in order to exist successfully in this world and to enjoy our time here, which is short. I know that.

My father has taught me not to succumb to nihilism, and my mother has taught me the value of hard work and determination.

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.