John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

Get the money out fast and do it honestly.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.

I prefer to make my living honestly.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people.

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

There's one thing very important to me in business and for the long-term: always be honest with people. For the past 60 years, I always pay my debts.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.

I am proof that you can you make money in Italy and be honest.

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'Look, it's not going to be scandalized. I'm not going to talk about anybody like a dog. I'm going to say the positiveness of my life, and talk about those who have contributed to the way I've been going, and that's that.'

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonestly: the man who respects it has earned it.

I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.

Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity.

Would a good friend, a smart friend, encourage you to do something as dishonorable as not pay a bill you're morally and legally obligated to pay? I don't think so.

Money and virtue must always be combined.

Of course, the human part of you wants to take as much money as you see, but all money isn't good money.

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.