Ethics

Ethics

No moral system can rest solely on authority.
A.J. Ayer 1910-1989, British philosopher

The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate.
Chester Barnard in The Functions of the Executive (1938)

Never take anybody`s advice.
G.B. Shaw 1856-1950, Irish critic and poet

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.
Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British philosopher and mathematician

Food comes first, then morals.
Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956, German dramatist

Corporation, n., An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American columnist, The Devils Dictionary 1906

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
Henry Ford 1863 – 1947, American industrialist

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
Confucius 551BC - 479BC, Chinese philosopher, The Analects, Book II, Chapter XXIV

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.
Robert Noyce, inventor of the silicon chip

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961,American writer of novels and short stories

No moral system can rest solely on authority.
A.J. Ayer 1910-1989, British philosopher