Quotes About Ethics

I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment.

I support the free enterprise system, and I want companies to make money, but they shouldn't be reaping profits from the deaths of their employees or former employees.

Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

Everyone is now praying at the altar of every last dollar of profits to please shareholders. If you invest in your people and treat them well, it's a different way to increase profits.

Managing by values - not by profits - is a powerful process that will set your business on the path to becoming what I call a 'Fortunate 500' company.

I actually am a capitalist, and I believe in shareholders. But I believe in them as a result of what I do, not as a reason for what I'm doing. The same with profits - profits alone cannot be an objective. It has to have a purpose.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.

If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law.

It would be troubling if everything is determined by whether profits will be made within five to six years.

Donald Trump is a fraud. Listening to him talk about how he's going to put American first again, he's spent his entire career putting his own profits first.

Single-payer is about making our society a better place. It's about putting people over profits.

For millennials, conducting business with a purpose that goes beyond making profits is critically important in determining the kind of company they want to work for - and the kind of company with whom they are willing to do business.

Democratically elected governments meekly requesting giant corporations to pay pitifully low levels of tax on their enormous profits is not a good look.

The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.

I took over a Brazil in the midst of a profound ethical, moral, and economic crisis. We are committed to changing our history... We want to govern by example.

There is a profound difference between an activist judge and an engaged judge.

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.

I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.

Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.