Jeffrey R. Immelt Quotes

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the minute we go into the corporate place. Suddenly all of this is irrelevant.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

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

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.

Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is to produce a complete rule book that would be applicable to all cases.

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

You choose sin. You practice sin.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.