Quotes About Ethics

I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.

I don't think that sleeping with one of the owners gives you the advantages people think it does.

I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

When the law says you're entitled to an attorney, it doesn't mean you're entitled to an attorney who sleeps or an attorney who doesn't do his job.

Politicians in Canada should not put their religion on their sleeve.

If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.

Being slick is not the right answer.

It doesn't matter what's written on a coffee mug or on a 'culture' slide; what you do as a CEO, day in and day out, and how you behave will define your company's culture.

Do not slide in my DM if you broke.

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

I trust that McDonald's can find a way to sell all-natural chicken without raising their prices; we did that at Shake Shack. It is more expensive, and we took a slight margin hit, but we did it. And if we can do it, I know that much bigger companies can.

The bigger your platform gets - it kind of feels like being Godzilla sometimes. You make a slight move and you can accidentally knock over a building. It's a tough thing to navigate.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

When you're going into companies and you're secret filming, I didn't realise the amount of protection that you need legally before you can do just the slightest thing.

I have no obligation to deal with slime.

You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger.

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

Planned Parenthood can't hide their sickening abortion business behind a 'safe, legal and rare' slogan.

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

As reporters set aside their traditional role as fact seekers and veer into advocacy, they find themselves on a slippery journalistic slope.

I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?