Quotes About Ethics

I can assure you Mr. Zureikat never gave me a penny from an oil deal, a cake deal, a bread deal or from any other deal.

Things that have happened with Enron and companies like that, where they've squandered their employees' pension funds, I think it has brought a new level of anxiety. People don't feel like they can trust their employer.

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

I don't think congressmen and senators ought to be getting pensions when nobody else does.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Money does not change people, people change.

I always find it offensive when people say God showers riches on you if you're good.

A lot of people say that I'm an activist CEO. I just think I'm a responsible leader of a business.

When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.

People with chile peppers on their chef pants shouldn't be allowed in the kitchen.

I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.

The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

For all the good that Alok Nath had done, being perceived as a father figure, the fact that he was hitting on a girl, who was playing his daughter, made me almost want to throw up.

There were some relationships that weren't quite in line with the way we want to do things and the way that we want to be perceived by a lot of people.

Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

I believe one's responsibility as a role model begins and ends with their perception of what a good role model is.

Modern morality is all about perception.