Quotes About Ethics

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

Money should never change one's values…. Making money is only a report card. It's a way to tell how you're doing.

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.

You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.

Every day, you always have to be cognizant of your brand. I know it can cost you [future] money, but there are a lot of things more important than money that affect your brand.

Money is the wise man's religion.

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.

The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.

More people are bribed by their own money than anybody else's.

Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.