Quotes About Ethics

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.

You don't name something after something derogatory. You wouldn't name your child something derogatory. You wouldn't name your team something derogatory.

Strangers shouldn't be allowed to take a picture of your child and sell it for profit.

Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us?

Nobody has a problem if you promote your child, even they are incompetent or have no merit. It's fine, it's your child, your money. But the problem comes when you destroy my career to protect your child's or your friend's career.

Don't cut corners or compromise to achieve your dreams.

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

Find people whose morals and vision align with yours, and follow that.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. And the key there is in terms of civil disobedience. You have to make sure that what you're risking, what you're bringing onto yourself, does not serve as a detriment to anyone else. It doesn't hurt anybody else.

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.