Professional Standards Quotes

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.

It was weird, I saw the Brian Stann vs. Wanderlei fight, I thought, if I don't have another of those in me, there's no point in continuing. I never really cared about winning or losing, then don't put the product out there at all if it's going to be subpar.

I've acted professionally since I was 16.

I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs!

The pressure is always there to do my best. I feel happy that I have an audience that looks forward to my next project. I have to make sure that I deliver.

When I was starting out as a barrister in the 1980s, Lord Denning was the most famous judge in the land, and the supposed role model for every lawyer. But not for me.

I will always choose to work in a movie based on whether I would want to watch it - if I would be willing to spend money in a theatre on it. The script and the people you will work with come after that.

New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.'

I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go.

I'm always careful what clients I take.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

If the AMA [American Medical Association] is against you, you must be doing something right.

The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership.

… work on synthetic biology, or synbio, had become so cheap that its practitioners were no longer classically trained biologists. This meant that there were no shared assumptions regarding the new field’s ethics, professional standards, or safety.

It's completely inappropriate. It's not journalism. It's opinion.

I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.

Somebody approached me about working with Michael Jackson, and I did say no because I like working with new artists or people that I've worked with in the past. I can develop them from the ground up. There's no set standard that I have to live up to or anything like that.

I didn't set out specifically to be a manager, but once you end up in that role you want to be measured against the best in the profession.