Quotes About Ethics

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

There is only one social responsibility of business

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business.

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is also good for business?

In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.

Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.

A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.

Companies not interested in sustainable development issues will not survive long

Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.

There is no business on a dead planet

Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.

How we do anything, means everything.

The law is a horrible business.

No scheme pays as well as legitimate business.

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.