Gary Bettman Quotes

When a party shall make bond or conveyance, what he has named by word-of-mouth that shall hold good

Someone who signs a contract must respect it.

State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

At the end of the day, everyone is repsonsible for their own contracts. Nobody forced us to sign them.

I learned early in my career that if you see something that is not to standard or not within the law, and you ignore it, you've set a new standard, and it's lower.

The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term.

One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.

Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.

Woody Allen - legally, ethically, personally - was absolutely a father in our family.

Our core values and business ethics will always be paramount in all that we do, and we are always looking to do the right thing and settle claims fairly and accurately.

I've got two contracts in my life. One, with my wife because we're married. And, two, I've got a contract to protect Andy Dalton. I'll do both of those to the best of my ability.

As Canadians who proudly demand the equal treatment of minorities, religious freedom, gender equality and basic human rights for its citizens - allowing our political leaders to shamefully ignore these values in the name of business abroad, falls short of the high standard we rightfully set for ourselves.

When you sign a contract, that's your deal. Everyone has different deals anyway.

BP cannot undo a settlement it negotiated and signed just to avoid its consequences.

If you don't make weight, you're breaching a contract, straight up.

What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle. If Enron executives had shouted, "Head for the hills!" the employees might have had time to sucker other Americans into buying wildly over-inflated Enron stock. Just because your boss is a criminal doesn't make you a hero.

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?