Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?
I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.
I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.
It is fair to say the New Testament is the most ethically sophisticated of the great scriptures; the proper comparison for the Qur'an is with the Old Testament - against which it holds its own.
We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes our beliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.
The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.
I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.
Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.
I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.
