Alan Sugar Quotes

There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.

The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.

My dad made a huge impact on me in terms of right and wrong.

I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

Ethics to me is very important.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

Integrity needs no rules.