Top 1200 Business Ethics Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

Our party [Republicans] has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That's why everything I'll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. I want to keep their taxes down on small business. I want regulators to see their job as encouraging small enterprise, not crushing it.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free to deal or not to deal in any given case; to limit or withhold the equipment under his control, without reservation. Business discretion and business strategy, in fact, has no other means by to work out its aims. So that, in effect, all business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Without music I wouldn't have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I'm absolutely conscious of business.

It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly. But a wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked little interest. 'Big business' in the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life.

The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.

The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation.

What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

Everyone wants to call wrestling 'the business.' Why don't you treat it like a business? I don't care if you're running a diner, if you're running a car wash or a wrestling company. It's all business.

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

You can invest to create the new growth business while the core business is still growing, because new business units don't need to get big fast. But when the core business stops growing, investing to create new growth businesses becomes impossible.

Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.

How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

Even journalism has ethics and everyone should follow them.

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also.

The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.

I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics.

I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

The most important thing is that you make sure you follow the music, which is a musician's way of saying follow your heart. The two things are intertwined. You know, when you even mention the phrase "music business," the older you get, the sourer it sounds. It's a terrible business, you know. Music and business have nothing to do with each other; there's no correlation, so it's always a rub. I would encourage people, don't be swayed by the music business. If you're truly, in your heart, a musician, stay one, and let the business find you.

The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.

Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.