My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

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.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud or perhaps even think.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability environmental responsibility ethics and compliance.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

For me going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

I was raised by free-spirited people though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

For this equilibrium now in sight let us trust that mankind as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past will find for itself a new code of ethics common to all made of tolerance of courage and of faith in the Spirit of men.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.

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

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions such as medicine law engineering dentistry or nursing.

Interest in business ethics courses has surged and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically socially ethically and morally.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial it just doesn't work!

My parents have a strong work ethic but their attitude to life their philosophy is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

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

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today ethics moral.

Everyone talks about age but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.