Quotes About Ethics

The competitive spirit of basketball is slowly leaking out. Taking pride in one-on-one defense is slowly leaking out. It's more about selling calls and flopping.

No matter how small the dishonest deed is, at the end of the day, cheating is cheating.

In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.

Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.

I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire to achieve some arbitrary metric get the best of them. Whatever is compromised as a result doesn't matter anymore, as long as the company is growing.

I don't want to be an elitist designer. It's no fun just catering for a small group of people. It's against my principles.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

I don't like to eat octopus. They're so smart.

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.

At the end of the day, you're not defined, I don't believe, by your financial means. That doesn't make you a better person or a smarter person.

If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.

Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting.

My business affairs are entirely proper, and no amount of smear, rumour or innuendo will alter that fact.

It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.

I actually get quite sad when I smell bacon.

I don't want to be known as a 'player.' I don't want to give plastic smiles on television and say 'No comments.'

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

Heath Ledger's recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith's not so much.

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs, so those are the values I live by.

My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking, smoking or cursing.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.