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Quotes About Ethics

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.
~ J. P. Morgan
A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour
~ Phil Harding
You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time.
~ Chris Kilham
It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.
~ Jerry Greenfield
To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.
~ James Cook
People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
~ Desmond Tutu
Don't be so petty. Sometimes you have to do business with people you don't like. It doesn't mean you have to be like them or like them.
~ Donald Trump
Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
~ Marshall Field
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
~ Albert Einstein
Treat people you do business with as if they were a part of your family.
~ Konosuke Matsushita
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
~ Henry Ford
Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.
~ Clayton Christensen
Corporate Social Responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing us to do it because it is good for our business
~ Niall FitzGerald
Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.
~ David Ogilvy
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
~ Andrew Young
Living up to your commitments is part of business ethics. My word is my bond.
~ Isadore Sharp
If Triple H asked you to jump off a bridge, would you? Because I think that's good for business.
~ CM Punk
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
~ Louis Kronenberger
We're not responsible for the bustling and hustling that may go on here. Lots of people bustle, and some hustle. But that's their business, and a very old one.
~ Unknown
I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.
~ Martha Stewart
Ask ourselves: How can we serve, nurture and sustain the planet and its people in our business ventures?
~ Unknown
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
~ Barry Goldwater
Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.
~ Kazuo Inamori
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
~ Eric Ambler