Quotes About Ethics

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.

As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'

Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

What power has law where only money rules?

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

Doing good business - being ethical, being transparent, being caring, implementing values in your business - makes a difference, and you make money at the same time.

There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

Money always talks louder than morality.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.

I feel like little kids should and do steal money. That is a major part of being a young child.

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.