Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.
Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
We should never send another spy to the Soviet Union. Honesty is all that is necessary.
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Party honesty is party expediency.
Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.
Honesty is love.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
Honesty is the best policy.
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
Honesty is all you need.
Honesty is always hip.
An oath is the liar's retreat. Behind it falsehood puts on the robes of truth. The perjurer delights in swearing, for the act invests him with the appearance of honesty. An oath makes the tongue of vice as pure as the lips of virtue. It gives a rogue the weapon of the gentleman. It permits guilt to wear the dress of innocence. The man who is willing to tell the truth feels that his honesty is impeached when asked to take an oath
In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become quite atheistic.
Honesty is very sexy.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.
Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
It has now become the doctrine of a large class of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.