Quotes About Ethics

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

I instilled in my children the importance of good values in business: hard work, determination, integrity, and optimism.

I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.

I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.

The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.

Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.

Giving back was an expectation, not an option.

A hidden camera can only be a good journalist's last resort. But sometimes, it's the only option.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

Have you ever booked multiple restaurants so you could decide on the night where to go? Complained about the price of a dish that you loved? Ordered a coffee to use a cafe's wi-fi for half a day? If you said 'yes' to any of those, chances are there's a restaurateur out there who's hurting a little because of it.

Just as I would not abide by a resolution ordering me to kill Salvadorans. I also cannot abide by a resolution that orders me to let them die.

I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.

I believe orders should be obeyed, but sometimes you have to think about the orders you get.

If you're going to have a free economy, one in which the ordinary citizen can dispose of his own income, you're going to have people who dispose of it in an anti-social way.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

Just because you want to wear organic cotton doesn't mean you have to spend an arm and a leg.

The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.

There cannot be any company or organisation where 100% of the people are sadhus or mahatmas.

There are loads of good principles we've lost as a nation. Discipline. Organisation. Respect. I was brought up with those.

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.

The NCAA is one of the worst organizations - maybe the worst organization - in sports. They certainly don't care about the athlete.

You've got organizations out there that are consistently at a high level. They're known to play the right way at the right time.