Quotes About Ethics

Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the most respected business persons.

They treat kid actors more like an object than persons.

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

Normally, politicians lie because they want to persuade us of the truth of what they are saying. A candidate for Congress will claim that he earned a medal of honor when he did not, so that we will love and revere him.

The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the persuadee.

Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

Just because you have an exotic animal as a pet does not make you a danger or irresponsible.

People buy a cat and think, 'Oh that's a beautiful collar. I'll put that on,' but that doesn't make them a responsible pet owner.

Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.

I always tell Phil we're like the party poopers. If we ever get invited to a player party, between the two of us, we're like the downers. Like, 'Put down that beer!' Or, 'Should you really be eating those nachos?'

As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

Parsee culture is definitely one of strong business acumen, high ethics, and an element of philanthropy.

The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.

I think, when people hear the word 'philosophy,' they think of Plato and a bunch of people sitting around in their robes pontificating about life and how it should be. But really, somebody who is an active philosopher should not only be thinking of these things but putting them into practice.