Quotes About Ethics

We're the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it's only the best thing for us if it's the worst thing for someone else.

Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether.

...the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

Business is a matter of human service.

Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

It doesn't matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to give back.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.

Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.

Hire character. Train skill.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.