Quotes About Ethics

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

You must work well with others and be loyal to your team. Disloyalty is the worst of all traits. I seldom use the words "You're fired!" in business, unless somebody is really scum and stole from me.

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

But, if recent history has taught us anything, it's that self-regulation doesn't work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.

My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.