Ethical Quotes

• Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

  Aldo Leopold

  Behavior, Wrong Things, Doing The Right Thing

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• Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Organization, Long, Economy

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  Do the right thing because it is right.

  Immanuel Kant

  Courage, Honesty, Integrity

  Immanuel Kant (2005). “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.39, Broadview Press

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• The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Littles, Simplest

  Elizabeth Gunn, Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “A daring coiffeur: reflections on War and peace and Anna Karenina”, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

  W. Clement Stone

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.

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• The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Smart

  "Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators" by Dave Stone, (p. 143), 2004.

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• The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Anger, Achievement, Society

  "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.

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• In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Want, Action, Situation

  "Lucifer's Hammer". Book by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, 1977.

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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

  Eric Cantor

  Mean, Promise, Looks

  "Meet the Press" with Davide Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. February 28, 2010.

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• And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

  Roger Mudd

  Competition, Stories, Compromise

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• Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

  Orson Welles

  Money, Real, Class

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• The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

  Irving Babbitt

  Ethical Standards, Revolution, Urban

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Past, Erosion, Two

  "Fool.com: Doing Hard Time With Arthur Levitt [Special]". The Motley Fool Radio Show, www.fool.com. July 09, 2002.

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• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Animal, Thinking Man

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Responsibility, Successful, Corporations

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• My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

  Peter Singer

  Running, Thinking, Ethical Issues

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• Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

  Price Pritchett

  Time, Stronger, Muscles

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Honesty, Integrity

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• But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

  Price Pritchett

  Responsibility, Ethical Standards, Organization

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• A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Country, Arms, Behavior

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• Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.

  Price Pritchett

  Funny, Smell, Way

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• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Evil, Nuclear Missiles

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• If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

  Henry Kravis

  Integrity, Foundation, Moral

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• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

  Hans Kung

  Men, Evil, Different

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