Quotes About Ethics

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me

Being a good human being is good business.

Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt.

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

The question is where are business ethics and morality if one of the parties wants to dishonor a binding contract, just because in retrospect it realizes it could perhaps have got a better price!

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

You can't regulate a soul into a business.

The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

The role of business is to provide products and services that make peoples lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.