Zig Ziglar Quotes

Integrity is the most needed to succeed in business.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

Actions will be judged according to intentions.

It is not true that people of high principle are ill-suited for politics.

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

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.

We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don't think you should come anywhere near that line. We don't deserve much credit for this. It helps us make more money. I'd like to believe that we'd behave well even if it didn't work. But more often, we've made extra money from doing the right thing. Ben Franklin said I'm not moral because of it's the right thing to do - but because it's the best policy.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

I was born in an earlier generation and, as a group, my classmates at Blair Academy and Princeton University were as ethical, straightforward, and integrity laden as you could possibly imagine - perhaps not a 100% - but the overwhelming majority. I've been in business a long, long time and I simply cannot imagine seeking out cheating, greedy people.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.

You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.