Quotes About Ethics

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

You should always stand up for what you believe and never stand down to promise or protect your career.

Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.

The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it.

Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Being good is good business

A business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right.

You must do right before you feel good.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.