Patrick Dixon Quotes

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

It is vital to any organization, to be strong and effective, to be ethical.

If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.

I have learned that the ethics of the so-called markets can be different from what we learn at school. In day-to-day life you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term it always pays off to be ethical.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

We have to raise the bar on corporate governance. Shareholders want ethical behavior and honesty.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

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

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

In our way of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity.

One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

Corporate leaders surely have their problems, I believe that most CEOs are doing their best to hew to the ethical line. The problem is that that line has gotten blurred and that our moral standard seems to be "if everybody else is doing it, it's okay". That's not good enough for me.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.