Top 1200 Business Ethics Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

The music business has made a 360. It's a whole 'nother game. It's not nearly what it was. And I fear for it, because, you know, with the advent of the computer and online and downloading and all these things, they have destroyed - that stuff has destroyed the record business, not the music business, but the record business. The music business is well, and it's alive and thriving. Now, I hope something happens to turn it back around to the point whereas it's - you're earning a living from writing your songs, from your work, you know, because it's not like that anymore.

Business is cold and harsh. Business doesn't consider your personal needs or the ends of your family. Business doesn't allow you to keep to your job after you slaved at a place for 20+ years. Rather than increase your benefits, business cuts you out of the job situation so that you're job-hunting, off to find a far less prestigious position.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.

The reality of show business - and I suppose a lot of businesses, but specifically show business - is that it is this business of 'no's.' It's mostly 'no's.'

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

If you manage things properly - and, listen, I'm a business guy. I've got to prioritize spending in all my business career to prevent my business from going bankrupt. The federal government has got to start doing that eventually as well.

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

Founders have continually struggled with and adapted the 'big business' tools, rules, and processes taught in business schools when startups failed to execute 'the plan,' never admitting to the entrepreneurs that no startup executes to its business plan.

Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.

I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth . The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov . It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of art. With their business creation, entrepreneurs express their spiritual desire for self-realization, evolutionary passion for self- fulfillment, and creative vision of a new world. The entrepreneur's business is their artwork. The creation of business is as creative as any creation in art. In fact, building a business may be the most creative human activity.

I can honestly say my music is always going to be greater than my business side. Because I'm naturally a musician. And I don't have to get paid, I don't even have to have businesses. Business is business. And music is life.

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do. The movie business is and should be no different; I don't believe you have to sacrifice creativity to have business success. To the contrary, great art requires discipline.

It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.

Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.

You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.

What is frustrating is to have others question my motivation, my ethics, and my history.

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.

Walt Shaub is a true ethics hero for speaking out.

Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.

I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic.

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it.

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

The more I do this creative work teaching the "Personal Creativity in Business" course at Stanford the more I realize that business is about people in groups being creative in their own way. If business creativity does not allow individual development, then it isn't sustainable. But if business creativity means people bringing out their best and developing that, then amazing things can happen - not only for the business but also more importantly for the individual and the surrounding community.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business.

When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.

A lot of people want to start a business, and they're like, 'I wanna start a business, give me some money to invest.' Where is your business plan? Are you investing money yourself into your own business? How is this going to work? People think that they can just come to you with an idea and have money.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

Direct flights facilitate business. They facilitate business-to-business collaborations. I think anything that makes it easier to bring two areas together is a significant benefit to deepening relations and connections.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.

The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.