Quotes About Ethics

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.

I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: "I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

But rather than looking forward to reading that account, I felt as if I were stealing a private diary that had been locked by his death.

Thieves slept the sleep of the just, their fingers still in someone else's till.

He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.

Many of our clients engaged in "greenwashing": co-opting environmental causes to project an image of being sustainable.

No man is above justice," George Mason preached at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. That sentiment still rings true, yet competes with the political reality offered by then-representative Gerald Ford, who quipped in 1970 that "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

I once had to dispense with a literary agent because she drank too much. She was very surprised but I pointed out to her, quite logically I thought, that one of us had to be sober and it certainly wan't going to be me.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us from doing so.

It is against the law to use polar bear meat to make burgers.

Illegal' takes on a whole new meaning when you're loaded like Barnes. The rich have a separate rule book. To them if it makes money, it can't be wrong.

Great people have great values and great ethics.

Don't down the competition. If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing. This is a tempting rule to break. The sirens are sweetly singing. Set yourself apart with preparation and creativity -- don't slam them.

Rules are in every company for everyone to follow. Eh, except salespeople." -- Jeffrey Gitomer

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. —Henry Ford, innovating automaker

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.

The greatest threat to what is best is something persuasively good.

one in 10 text messages involves a lie of some kind. . . .