Quotes About Ethics

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.

Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.

Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack.

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

... some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

Nothing can be good if you do it for money or for fame.

I never count my money. I think that's your job.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.