Quotes About Ethics

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

You want stability in the world, you have to start with values.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Politics should stay out of the stadium.

By making a company successful, you can provide more employment, and, if you treat your staff well, then your business itself becomes a charity.

I want to start every game but you have to respect the staff.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal... is it cute?

I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was.

Most of the people I came across in the finance and business world were honest people, doing the best for their staff and for their family. But I encountered many who weren't.

I have been offered obscene amounts to do commercials and stage shows abroad, but as a matter of principle, I am against them.

'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.

When you consider the depths to which major college football coaches are willing to sink in order to protect their programs, Tyrann Mathieu's dismissal from LSU is staggering.

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

My primary goal is to eradicate poverty; I believe it is immoral and a stain on our society. And so when I despair or get angry, I take the time to think about how I can best achieve that goal - and then I get to work.

This hand is free of blood, and this hand is free from the stain of corruption.

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

Golf is fundamentally about being honest. I see people hit eight shots and tell me they shot five. I never say a word. It is a reminder to me of what is at stake.

Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

What are we doing to make sure that people don't get the debate questions ahead of time - because I can tell you this: if my boss at the time, Reince Priebus, had gotten the debate questions, and handed them off, he would have been driven out of this town on a stake, and Donald Trump would have been vilified.

When there's millions of dollars at stake, everybody is going to look for an advantage.

I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.

ncrementalism is out, and doing deals with people just for power, when our children's futures at stake is not something I will ever do.

A healthy corporation acts on the interests of its stakeholders and customers.

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.