Top 1200 Business Ethics Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

You might indeed be able to provide this money that people need to start a business, but can they run a business? This new consolidated agency [National Empowerment Fund] focuses on that matter of preparing people so that they can run business successfully.

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

You have to be passionate about your business. If you don't love your business, you are doing a terrible disservice to your customers and clients, your team members and business partners, your family and yourself.

There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

I'm very true to the old punk ethics of honesty and truthfulness and integrity... and still be authentic.

A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.

In every project I do, I'm unwilling to compromise my values and morals and ethics. That's very important to me.

You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.

I still live very much by punk ethics, but in a more grown up way.

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.

The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference.

I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.

Integrity, probity, ethics and transparency is needed but most important is the culture of discipline

It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property?

What I love about the way they both [Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix] work is that all of the monkey business is on film. There's no monkey business outside of the monkey business of making the movie. There's no ego bullshit, there's no wasted energy. It's all directed at the story and that's rare.

I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

My number one rule in business, and in life, is to enjoy what you do. Running a business involves long hours and hard decisions; if you don't have the passion to keep you going, your business will more than likely fail. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the only way they can do that is to converse in the language of business value and business benefits and business outcomes that all align perfectly with the strategic agenda of the company.

The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.

Watering the tree that does give you neither shade nor fruit is a real ethics!

The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

Of course, an Oscar nomination would have added considerably to the film's business abroad. But it has already made nearly Rs 150 crore. It has done stupendous business overseas. We did a business of Rs 80 crore when we took 'Devdas' to Cannes.

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.

Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was the founder of modern business. . . he picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world!

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Meaningful ethics reform is vital to restoring public confidence in Missouri's political system.

We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

I'll tell you, it's Big Business. If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it's Big Business. Or two words – Big Business.

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

In many climbing cultures, it seems that dirty ethics and poor style are acceptable. In mine they are not.

The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies.