Quotes About Ethics

One dirty tactic big pharmaceutical companies use is keeping drug prices artificially high through anti-competitive conduct, such as paying competitors millions of dollars to stop them from creating generic drugs.

I think it used to be an accepted leadership tactic to essentially abuse people.

Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.

When I started losing business to salespeople who were using used-car salesmen kind of tactics, I realized I can't ignore the EQ thing; it's going to kill sales.

If you're a politician, you can see there might be times when, to secure the greater good, you have to take a backwards step. That is a matter of tactics.

Corrupt people sometimes are smart; some of them are dull, but some of them are very smart. They can hide their corruption tactics.

I'm a clean boxer. You don't have to worry about any dirty tactics.

In your journey to the tag of winning-at-all-costs you can still behave, you can still do the right things by not crossing the line. Lot of champions have done it. Look at Rahul Dravid, Steve Waugh.

I don't think there are any negative roles anymore. I think we can aptly put such characters under 'anti-hero' tag.

The discussion of animal rights in jallikattu has been misunderstood. We know that the tails of the bulls are broken, that chilly powder is rubbed into their eyes and they are forcibly fed country liquor. The animal is overwhelmed and does not know what is happening.

I will not allow either my good name or the good name of the company I founded and love to be unfairly tainted.

In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'

Tainted numbers, I believe, do not belong in the Hall of Fame.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

I still have a 15¢ sticker on the frame of my law degree. It's tainted, so I just leave it in the basement.

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you.

When you don't take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.

If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

I'm not the type of person that could take someone else's funds and take a chance with them.

We don't take advantage of our position. We keep saying no to free stuff, as we can afford it now.

When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.